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corked en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /kɔːkt/ (UK)

Meanings

  1. Of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork.
    • Once someone discovered a bottle of wine in the sand that was still corked. 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 554:
  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

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
more corked Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most corked Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

corked bat · corked up

Relateds

cork taint

corked en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /kɔːkt/ (UK)

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of cork
    form of cork