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corking
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synonyms: whizzy ???
tags: [britain] [slang]
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Definition:splendid; bang-up
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Roland, meanwhile, was reading with horrified eyes the alleged corking Scandal Page. It seemed to him without exception the most frightful production he had ever seen. It appalled him.
P.G. Wodehouse. A Man of Means
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"Say, did you ever see anything so corking fine?" He looked up, holding the ruby in the light. "And to think how little I dreamed of scooping anything like that when I came in here to-night!"
Francis Perry Elliott. The Haunted Pajamas
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He's on the square and a corking fine business proposition.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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