Usually means: Eccentrically quirky and amusingly unconventional.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word corky:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. corky: Merriam-Webster
  2. corky: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. corky: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. corky: Vocabulary.com
  5. Corky, corky: Wordnik
  6. corky: Wiktionary
  7. corky: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. corky: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. corky: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Corky, corky: Dictionary.com
  11. Corky (film), Corky (killer whale), Corky: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Corky: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. corky: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. corky: Rhymezone
  15. Corky: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. corky: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. corky: FreeDictionary.org
  18. corky: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. corky: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. corky: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. corky: A Word A Day

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Corky (offensive), Corky (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. corky: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. corky: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See corkier as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (corky)

▸ adjective:  Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.
▸ adjective:  Consisting of, or like, cork; dry; shrivelled.
▸ noun:  (Australia, slang) A deep bruise, usually on the leg or buttock, caused by a blow; a haematoma.

Similar:
corked, bad, Corkish, corklike, fusty, botrytized, corkscrewy, casky, tainted, vinous, more...

Opposite:
uncorked, non-corky, corkless

Phrases:
Corky Romano, Corky Ballas, Corky Laing, Corky Carroll, The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky, more...

Adjectives:
little, old, poor, more, pileus, present, soft, eminently, young, distressed, outer

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Similar:
corked, bad, Corkish, corklike, fusty, botrytized, corkscrewy, casky, tainted, vinous, more...

Opposite:
uncorked, non-corky, corkless

Phrases:
Corky Romano, Corky Ballas, Corky Laing, Corky Carroll, The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky, Corky Siegel, Corky Rogers, more...

Adjectives:
little, old, poor, more, pileus, present, soft, eminently, young, distressed, outer

Colors:
    beige,     tan,     brown,     taupe,     khaki, more...



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