corky
English
adj
Definitions
- Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.
- Consisting of, or like, cork; dry; shrivelled.
Etymology
Suffix from English cork (stopper, injure by a blow, corkscrew).
Origin
English
cork
Gloss
stopper, injure by a blow, corkscrew
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cork English
- corkable English
- corkage English
- corkball English
- corker English
- corkiness English
- corkless English
- corklike English
- corkline English
- corkscrew English
- corkwing English
- corkwood English
- recork English
- uncork English
- cork French
- cork Middle English
- corc Irish
- korko Esperanto
- काग Hindi
- corc Welsh