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Corky vs Forky - What's the difference?

corky | forky |

As adjectives the difference between corky and forky

is that corky is of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork while forky is forked.

As a noun corky

is (au|slang) an injury caused by a blow ("corking").

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").

    • Anagrams

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    forky

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • forked
  • * {{quote-book, year=1857, author=Abigail Stanley Hanna, title=Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The forky lightning flashed, and the deep toned thunder reverberated peal on peal, while the shrieking winds rocked the tree tops, and poured their wild melody upon the ear. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1896, author=Captain Frederick Marryat, title=The Phantom Ship, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The column of fire now ascended above the main-top--licking with its forky tongue the top-mast rigging--and embracing the mainmast in its folds: and the loud roar with which it ascended proved the violence and rapidity of the combustion below, and how little time there was to be lost. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Various, title=The Red Romance Book, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=At the sight of the young man it lashed its tail so violently that the earth trembled as if with an earthquake, while its forky tongue darted in and out with a deafening hissing noise. }}