corky
pronunciation
How to pronounce corky in British English:
UK ['kɔ:kɪ]
How to pronounce corky in American English:
US ['kɔkɪ]
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- Adjective:
- (of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin
Word Origin
- corky (adj.)
- early 17c., "light, buoyant" (as cork is), hence, figuratively, of persons "lively;" from cork (n.) + -y (2). Of bottled liquors or wine, "having a flavor of cork," from 1889.
Example
- 1. Branchlets never spinose , never corky or winged .
- 2. Branchlets 4-sided , later terete , glabrous ; bark corky and wrinkled .
- 3. Eat up , otherwise you don 't get to play with corky , okay ?
- 4. Corky could be heading for the open sea .
- 5. North american elm having twigs and young branches with prominent corky .