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Corkery

Corkery proper noun: a surname from Irish.

Proper noun

Corkery (countable and uncountable, plural Corkerys)

  1. A surname from Irish.
  2. A ghost town in Dallas County, Missouri, United States.

Forms of Corkery

pluralCorkerys

Origin of Corkery

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Corcra (“descendant of Corcra”), a personal name derived from corcair (“purple”).

Questions about Corkery

What does Corkery mean?
Corkery means a surname from Irish.
What part of speech is Corkery?
Corkery is a proper noun.

Words near Corkery in the dictionary

  1. corker
  2. Corkerhill
  3. Corkern
  4. Corkerns
  5. corkers
  6. Corkery
  7. Corkerys
  8. Corkickle
  9. corkie
  10. corkier
  11. corkies

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