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corking definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing" [syn: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing]

Merriam Webster's

adjective or adverb Date: 1895 extremely fine — often used as an intensive especially before good <had a corking good time>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. sl. strikingly large or splendid.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cork Cork, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Corked (k[^o]rkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Corking.] 1. To stop with a cork, as a bottle. 2. To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork. Tread on corked stilts a prisoner's pace. --Bp. Hall. Note: To cork is sometimes used erroneously for to calk, to furnish the shoe of a horse or ox with sharp points, and also in the meaning of cutting with a calk.