Meanings
adjectivecorked up (not comparable)
- figurativelynot comparableUnable to speak; silenced.
He shut up suddenly, corked up by a special item in his list of martyrdoms that squandered him to gloom.
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 82
Cite this entry
APA
corked up. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/corked%20up
MLA
“corked up.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/corked%20up. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “corked up,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/corked%20up.
Source: corked up on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.