Noun: cork
Sample Sentences
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I confess my confidence was shaken by these actions, though I knew well enough that his leg was no more cork than my own [1908, Edwin George Pinkham, Fate's a fiddler, page 108:]
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Because cork is porous, it expands and contracts with changes in humidity. [1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 48:]
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Snobs feel it's hard to call it wine with a straight face when the cork is made of plastic.
Nouns inflected like cork
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-
3. Proto-Indo-European *(s)kert-
4. Proto-Indo-European *(s)kort-ek-sder.
5. Latin cortexder.?
6. ▲
7. Latin cortexder.
8. Mozarabic *kórčo, *kórčeder.?
9. Spanish corchobor.
10. Middle Dutch curcder.
11. Middle English cork
12. English cork
13. From Middle English cork (“oak bark, cork”), from Middle Dutch curc (“cork (material or object)”), either from Spanish corcho (“cork (material or object)”) (also corcha or corche) or from Old Spanish alcorque (“cork sole”). Doublet of cortex. See: Middle English Nouns '
cork', Spanish Nouns '
corcho'.
Verbs referencing "cork"
French Nouns
cork, Irish Nouns
corc.