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corkier

corkier is the comparative form of corky.

Meaning of corky

Adjective

corky (comparative corkier, superlative corkiest)

  1. Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.
    • This wine smells a bit corky; get me another bottle.
  2. Consisting of, or like, cork; dry; shrivelled.
    • Bind fast his corky arms.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
    Synonyms:
    suberose, suberous

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Questions about corkier

What is corkier the comparative form of?
Corkier is the comparative form of corky.

Words near corkier in the dictionary

  1. corkers
  2. Corkery
  3. Corkerys
  4. Corkickle
  5. corkie
  6. corkier
  7. corkies
  8. corkiest
  9. Corkill
  10. Corkills
  11. corkindrill

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Adapted from Wiktionary: corkier (page history and authors); corky (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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