Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.
Used in a Sentence
corky
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for corky.
Editorial note
Or coat exteriors with fire-resistant coverings, as the corky-barked trees do.
Examples18
Definitions3
Parts of speech2
Quick take
Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of corky gathered in one view.
Consisting of, or like, cork; dry; shrivelled.
(Australia, slang) A deep bruise, usually on the leg or buttock, caused by a blow; a haematoma.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for corky.
adjective
Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.
adjective
Consisting of, or like, cork; dry; shrivelled.
noun
(Australia, slang) A deep bruise, usually on the leg or buttock, caused by a blow; a haematoma.
Example sentences
Or coat exteriors with fire-resistant coverings, as the corky-barked trees do.
You see, if Corky had had two guns instead of just a big dick, he would have been there right to the end to defend himself.
When you look at the surface closely you see little corky spots, where the hypersensitive response took place, a defense mechanism in plants against fungal infection.
Notably, what Corky did say isn't actually present in the expression, meaning we have to now trust the author interpreting things for us.
It's been working well for running 4-6 parallel sessions across corky (email client), agent-doc itself, and a JetBrains plugin — all from one tmux window with window-scoped routing.
The social interaction overshadowed the corky avatar and somehow convinced my brain that I was talking to a real human being and not an avatar.
[...] Well, old Bob wasn't gonna wait for Corky to grow a new hand.
This leaves the researches to cobble together a solution that maybe kinda fulfills their need, not corky, and certainly not perpetually (a lot of reliance on trial software and services).
Edit: Even worse is the case where Corky actually did speak broken English style, which is now rendered a matter of ambiguity because someone thought muddying up the language would help their prose be more clear!
> Within six weeks, we narrowed in on a concept we all liked Not trying to be corky, but six weeks and the logo look like an airport booking service?
On the lower end of the income spectrum for digital nomads, you do see a lot of people who do stuff like corky little wordpress sites, copy writing, translation work or whatever on fiver.com making like what you'd make for that, who can't even write code and just outsource it to other people on fiver in India or whatever, living comfortably in cheap hostels and stuff on under 1000$/month.
Quote examples
If Corky's speech is broken in that he leaves out "my", the author's addition would be changing the quotation.
Did Corky really tell the town council, "go home and bite pillow" broken English style?
Did Corky say, "go home and bite pillow" broken English style?
> I would've assumed Corky said "go home and bite pillow." I think that amounts to an assumption that the author is dishonest.
Proper noun examples
Corky Cartwright was also instrumental in learning about abstract datatypes especially in the Strachey-Scott formal views.
Now that bullet whizzing by panicked old Corky, and he did the wrong thing.
My Waiting for Guffman dvd was lost at some point and I often open its case wanting to watch and remember again and get disappointed like Corky.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use corky in a sentence?
Or coat exteriors with fire-resistant coverings, as the corky-barked trees do.
What does corky mean?
Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.
What part of speech is corky?
corky is commonly used as adjective, noun.