corker

See also: Corker

English

Alternative forms

• (something exceptional or remarkable): cauker, caulker (both archaic)

Etymology

cork +‎ -er

Noun

corker (plural corkers)

1. One who puts corks into bottles.
   • 1857, Herman Melville, chapter 30, in The Confidence-Man‎^[1]:

     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. (informal) A person or thing that is exceptional or remarkable.

   Synonym: whopper

   • 1889, Mark Twain, chapter XVI, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court‎^[2], page 124:

     Well, a body is bound to admit that for just a modest little one-line ad., it's a corker.

   • 2012, Mark Griffiths, Space Lizards Ate My Sister!:

     He had just had an absolute corker of an idea!

Anagrams

• Croker, croker, re-rock, recork, rerock, rocker