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corking

corking is the present participle and gerund of cork.

Meaning of cork

Verb

cork (third-person singular simple present corks, present participle corking, simple past and past participle corked)

  1. (transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
    • Arms draped on shoulders, kick-stepping in circles, they swing bottles of wine. Purpled thumbs cork the bottles. The wine leaps and jumps behind green glass.2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
  2. (transitive) To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.
  3. To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
  4. To fill with cork.
    1. (transitive) To tamper with (a bat) by drilling out part of the head and filling the cavity with cork or similar light, compressible material.
      • He corked his bat, which was discovered when it broke, causing a controversy.
  5. (Australia, transitive) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
    • The vicious tackle corked his leg.

See all 18 meanings of cork

Adjective

corking (comparative more corking, superlative most corking)

  1. (informal) splendid, enjoyable, bang-up
    • a wonderful all around ballplayer and a corking fine fellow1927, Lou Gehrig, Following the Babe in Alan D. Gaff, Lou Gehrig: The Lost Memoir, Simon & Schuster 2020, page 59

Noun

corking (uncountable)

  1. The formation of white, cork-like striations on a jalapeño pepper.

Forms of corking

comparativemore corking
superlativemost corking

Words formed from corking

Phrases with corking

Questions about corking

What does corking mean?
Corking means splendid, enjoyable, bang-up.
What is corking the present participle and gerund of?
Corking is the present participle and gerund of cork.
What part of speech is corking?
Corking can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near corking in the dictionary

  1. Corkill
  2. Corkills
  3. corkindrill
  4. corkindrills
  5. corkiness
  6. corking
  7. corking it
  8. corking off
  9. corking out
  10. corking pin
  11. corking pins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: corking (page history and authors); cork (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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