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Definition: Corking |
CorkingAdjective1. (informal) very good; "a bully pulpit"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "corking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: CorkingSynonyms: bang-up (adj), bully (adj), cracking (adj), dandy (adj), great (adj), groovy (adj), keen (adj), neat (adj), nifty (adj), not bad(p) (adj), peachy (adj), slap-up (adj), smashing (adj), swell (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Connection | Pin, corking pin, nail, brad, tack, skewer, staple, corrugated fastener; clamp, U-clamp, C-clamp; cramp, cramp iron; ratchet, detent, larigo, pawl; terret, treenail, screw, button, buckle; clasp, hasp, hinge, hank, catch, latch, bolt, latchet, tag; tooth; hook, hook and eye; lock, holdfast, padlock, rivet; anchor, grappling iron, trennel, stake, post. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Corking |
| English words defined with "corking": Bottling. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "corking": Cork. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "corking": Corking pin. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Sheaffer fountain pen factory, Ft. Madison, Iowa. Corking ink bottles. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Corking" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 42.86% of the time. "Corking" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 42.86% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 28.57% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 28.57% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "corking": Corking pin. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "corking": re-corking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bat corking | 240 |
baseball bat corking | 98 |
corking | 20 |
bat corking physics | 5 |
bat corking sammy sosa | 4 |
aluminum bat corking | 3 |
baseball corking | 3 |
bat corking does | 2 |
corking sammy sosa | 2 |
corking machine | 2 |
wine corking | 2 |
corking sosa | 2 |
bat corking instructions | 2 |
bat corking softball | 2 |
baseball bat corking physics | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "corking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i shkëlqyer (admirable, bright, brilliant, capital, choice, copybook, crack, cracking, Dandy, divine, excellent, fabulous, famous, fantastic, fantastical, fine, first rate, flamboyant, gaudy, glazy, glorious, glossy, gorgeous, great, heavenly, immense, marvellous, marvelous, perfect, pink, plum, powerful, prize, pukka, rare, ripping, royal, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, whizzbang, wicked). (various references) | |
Arabic | ممتاز إلى أبعد الحدود. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | чудесен (admirable, beautiful, champion, clipping, cool, delicious, elegant, excellent, fabulous, famous, fine, glorious, gorgeous, great, heavenly, hot, immense, lovely, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, neat, nifty, noble, priceless, rattling, regular, ripping, scrumptious, smashing, spanking, splendid, super, terrific, thundering, topping, walloping, wizard, wonderful). (various references) | |
Chinese | 塞住 (Corked, Plugged, Plugging). (various references) | |
Danish | propning (capping). (various references) | |
Dutch | afsluiten (accomodate, bar, end, fence off, finish, lock, make a contract, obstruct, strike a balance, terminate). (various references) | |
French | bouchage. (various references) | |
German | Zupfropfen (Cork, plug, stopper), zukorkend (corking up). (various references) | |
Greek | πωμάτισμα (capping). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פקיק" (gagging, pegging, plugging, stopping), סתום (abstruse, blocked, closed, closing, congested, incomprehensible, obscure, stopped up, stopping, vague, vagueness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | remek (aces, bitching, bully, clinker, crackajack, dandy, dashing, delicious, divvy, excellent, glorious, grand, great, helluva, ideal, jake, masterful, mind-blowing, nifty, prime, proud, racy anecdote, rattling, ripping, scrumptious, smashing, sniffy, spiffy, superb, swell, tall, thumbs up, to be all aces, top notch, wow). (various references) | |
Italian | tappatura (capping). (various references) | |
Korean | "르크 마개를 끼움. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orkingcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rolhagem (capping). (various references) | |
Russian | потрясающий (appalling, breath-taking, fab, gobsmacked, killing, mind-blowing, mind-boggling, rattling good, shocking, startling, terrific). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | odličan (cool, excellent, famous, fancy, lummy, slap up, stellar, swell, top-hole, topping). (various references) | |
Spanish | taponado (Corky). (various references) | |
Swedish | toppen (agreed, big deal, cool, crazy, heavy, hot, jim-dandy, keen, super). (various references) | |
Thai | สุ"ยอ" (awesome!, dogs, rare, summit, tiptop). (various references) | |
Turkish | muhteşem (August, glorious, gorgeous, grand, imperial, lordly, magnific, magnifical, magnificent, majestic, noble, olympian, regal, resplendent, royal, slashing, solemn, spectacular, splendid, stately, stupendous, superb), harika (beautiful, bully, cool, divine, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, far out, gorgeous, groovy, immense, in the groove, jolly good, keen, marvel, marvellous, marvelous, miracle, no mean, old, phenomenal, phenomenon, prodigious, prodigy, ripping, scrumptious, splendid, swell, whizz, wicked, wizard, wonder, wonderful, wondrous, yummy, yum-yum), şahane (brave, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, far out, keen, magnificent, princely, wizard, wonderful). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "corking": recorking, uncorking. (additional references) | |
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"Corking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Circini, Circinn, Coiruisg, cokin, coreing, corkins, Corkwing, corping, corsing, crokeing, croking, crouing, dorking, korving. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "corking" (pronounced kô"rking) |
| 5 | -ô" r k i ng | forking. |
| 4 | -r k i ng | barking, earmarking, embarking, harking, marking, parking, remarking, sharking, sparking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | antismoking, aching, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earthshaking, eking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: rocking. | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-k-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: coking, coring. | |
-2 letters: coign, corgi, giron, groin, incog, orcin, orgic. | |
-3 letters: cion, coin, coir, coni, conk, cork, corn, gink, girn, giro, grin, icon, ikon, inro, iron, king, kino, kirn, nick, nock, noir, nori, oink, rick, ring, rink, rock. | |
-4 letters: cig, cog, con, cor, gin, gor, ick, ink, ion, irk, kin, kir, koi, kor, nog. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-k-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: croaking, crocking, crooking, frocking, rockling, trocking. | |
+2 letters: cockering, reckoning, recocking, recooking, recorking, redocking, relocking, rocketing, rocklings, uncorking. | |
+3 letters: defrocking, frolicking, outrocking, precooking, reckonings, restocking, rollicking, unfrocking. | |
+4 letters: checkrowing, cornhusking, disfrocking, forelocking, greenockite, gridlocking, jackrolling, mockingbird, outtricking, overcooking, overdecking, pockmarking. | |
+5 letters: backcrossing, backdropping, corkscrewing, cornhuskings, forechecking, goldbricking, greenockites, interlocking, misreckoning, mockingbirds, overstocking, pitchforking, roadblocking, rockhounding, schnorkeling, skyrocketing, stockbroking. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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