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cor en · INTJ · etymology 1
Pronunciation
/kɔː/ (Received-Pronunciation) /kɔɹ/ (Canada, General-American) (Southern-England) audio Etymology A minced oath or dialectal variant of God.
Meanings
(Cockney, UK) Expression of surprise.
[…] She perused it with an interested eye and having mastered its contents said, “Cor chase my Aunt Fanny up a gum tree,” adding that you never knew what was going to happen next these days. 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
Relateds
cor blimey
Synonyms
wow
Source: en.wiktionary, “cor” (intj), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
cor en · NOUN · etymology 2
Pronunciation
/kɔː/ (Received-Pronunciation) /kɔɹ/ (Canada, General-American) (Southern-England) audio Etymology Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew כֹּר (kōr).
Meanings
(historical) Any of various former units of volume ▸ A Hebrew unit of liquid volume, about equal to 230 L or 60 gallons.
(historical) Any of various former units of volume ▸ Synonym of homer: approximately the same volume as a dry measure.
(historical) Any of various former units of volume ▸ A roughly equivalent Phoenician unit of volume.
Forms
Meronyms
hin (1⁄60 cor) (liquid volume) · bath (1⁄10 cor) (liquid volume) · cab (liquid volume) · kab (1⁄180 cor) (liquid volume) · homer (dry volume) · log (1⁄720 cor) (liquid volume)
Relateds
cor bovinum (terms unrelated etymologically) · cor triatriatum (terms unrelated etymologically) · cor pulmonale (terms unrelated etymologically)
Synonyms
omer · homer · homer
Source: en.wiktionary, “cor” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.