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corker en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /kɔː.kə(ɹ)/ non-rhotic
• /koɹ.kəɹ/ rhotic

Etymology

From cork + -er.

Meanings

1. One who puts corks into bottles.
   • Yes it is, Frank. Don't you see? Laertes is to take the best of care of his friends—his proved friends, on the same principle that a wine-corker takes the best of care of his proved bottles. 1857, Herman Melville, chapter 30, in The Confidence-Man:
2. (informal) A person or thing that is exceptional or remarkable.
   • He had just had an absolute corker of an idea! 2012, Mark Griffiths, Space Lizards Ate My Sister!:
   • Well, a body is bound to admit that for just a modest little one-line ad., it's a corker. 1889, Mark Twain, chapter XVI, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, page 124:
   • "As a matter of fact," explained the young man, "the present tenant is under our notice to leave." "Unsatisfactory, eh?" said Carrados encouragingly. "He's a corker," admitted the clerk, responding to the friendly tone. "Fifteen months and not a doit of rent have we had. That's why I should have liked——" 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:

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Synonyms

whopper