corking

cork·ing (kôr

ng) 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

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Adj.

corking - very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"

bang-up, bully, cracking, dandy, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell, groovy, keen, great, neat

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 game → ein 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:

The Arabian Nights by Lang, Andrew View in context

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.

Uneasy Money by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context

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