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Dorkier vs Corkier - What's the difference?

dorkier | corkier |

As adjectives the difference between dorkier and corkier

is that dorkier is comparative of dorky while corkier is comparative of corky.

dorkier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (dorky)

    • dorky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Like a dork, or having a dork's characteristics.
  • * 1962 , Alain Robbe-Grillet, Last year at Marienbad page 167:
    • I entitled the piece "Dorky ", dork being slang for a person who does not belong to popular groups, usually an outsider, an odd person, sometimes inept, other times cranky.
  • * 1998 , Dana Redfield, Lucy Blue and the Daughters of Light ISBN 9781571741073
    • Anyway this dorky guy asks Sallyfrass to dance and she kind of likes him...

    corkier

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (corky)

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    corky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.
    • This one smells a bit corky ; get me another bottle.
  • Consisting of, or like, cork; dry; shrivelled.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Bind fast his corky arms.

    Synonyms

    * (like cork) suberose, suberous (in botany)

    Noun

    (corkies)
  • (AU, slang) An injury caused by a blow ("corking").

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