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Gorky vs Corky - What's the difference?

gorky | corky |

As adjectives the difference between gorky and corky

is that gorky is (informal) awkward or strange while corky is of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.

As a noun corky is

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

gorky

English

(Nizhny Novgorod) (Maxim Gorky)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • (historical) Nizhny Novgorod.
  • A Russian surname.
  • (a city in Belarus)

    • 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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