corked up en · ADJ
Meanings
- (not-comparable) Stoppered with a cork.
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(figuratively, not-comparable) Unable to speak; silenced.
He shut up suddenly, corked up by a special item in his list of martyrdoms that squandered him to gloom.
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 82: