corker
See also: Corker
English
Noun
corker (plural corkers)
- One who puts corks into bottles.
- 1857, Herman Melville, chapter 30, in The Confidence-Man:
- 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.
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- (informal) A person or thing that is exceptional or remarkable.
- 1889, Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Chapter XVI, p. 124
- Well, a body is bound to admit that for just a modest little one-line ad., it's a corker.
- Synonym: whopper
- 1889, Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Chapter XVI, p. 124
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