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corking

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cork·ing  (kôrkng) Slang
adj.
Splendid; fine: a corking party.
adv.
Used as an intensive: a corking good story.

[From corker.]

corking [ˈkɔːkɪŋ]
adj
(prenominal) Brit slang excellent
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.corking - very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"
colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
good - having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified; "good news from the hospital"; "a good report card"; "when she was good she was very very good"; "a good knife is one good for cutting"; "this stump will make a good picnic table"; "a good check"; "a good joke"; "a good exterior paint"; "a good secretary"; "a good dress for the office"
Translations
corking
adj (dated Brit, inf) → Klasse- (inf); a corking gameein Klassespiel nt (inf)


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After corking the vase tightly down, he carried it to one of his friends, a merchant like himself, and said to him:
Dudley's not only a corking good fellow, but he has thirty million dollars stuffed away in the stocking and a business that brings him in a perfectly awful mess of money every year.
 
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