corker

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who puts corks into bottles.
    — Yes it is, Frank. Don't you see? Laertes is to take the best of care of his friends—his proved friends, on the same principle that a wine-corker takes the best of care of his proved bottles.
  2. A person or thing that is exceptional or remarkable. informal
    — Well, a body is bound to admit that for just a modest little one-line ad., it's a corker.

词形变化

corkers plural cauker alternative caulker alternative

词源

Etymology tree
English cork
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English corker
From cork + -er.
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