Definitions for corking

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corking cork·ing

Spelling: [kawr-king]

IPA: /ˈkɔr kɪŋ/

Corking is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 141 anagrams from letters in corking (cgiknor).

Definitions for corking

noun

1. the outer bark of an oak, Quercus suber, of Mediterranean countries, used for making stoppers for bottles, floats, etc.
2. Also called cork oak. the tree itself.
3. something made of cork.
4. a piece of cork, rubber, or the like used as a stopper, as for a bottle.
5. Angling. a small float to buoy up a fishing line or to indicate that a fish is biting.
6. Also called phellem, suber. Botany. an outer tissue of bark produced by and exterior to the phellogen.

Idioms

1. blow / pop one's cork, Informal. to lose one's temper; release one's emotional or physical tension.

adverb

1. very:

adjective

1. excellent; fine.

verb (used with object)

1. to provide or fit with cork or a cork.
2. to stop with or as if with a cork (often followed by up).
3. to blacken with burnt cork.

Origin of corking

First recorded in 1890-95; cork + -ing²

Examples for corking

She's a corking girl, and her mother is going to help her some.

A fellow back there said you made a corking tackle of that thief!

It's a corking chair, all right, and you're sure to want it.

That was a corking homer of yours, and the triple was almost as good.

Met some corking people there, Mexicans, starting home to-morrow.

Jack Cardigan called it "stunning," "ripping," "topping," and "corking."

"Your idea is all right, Kip—corking," he asserted at length.

“What a corking opportunity to make a fresh start,” commented Cavanagh.

I put it to you that He's on the square and a corking fine business proposition.

What we need is a corking good full-back; and a couple of linemen.