corked

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English

Pronunciation

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /kɔːkt/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(r)kt

Verb

corked

  1. simple past and past participle of cork

Adjective

corked (comparative more corked, superlative most corked)

  1. Of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork.
    • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 554:
      Once someone discovered a bottle of wine in the sand that was still corked.
  2. Of (a bottle of) wine, tainted by mould/mold in the cork.
    Waiter, this wine is corked. Could you bring us another bottle?
  3. Blackened by burnt cork.
    the corked faces of the outlaws

Anagrams

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