Re: serverboot

[Philip Charles]

On 19 Dec 2002, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:

> "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@kemisten.nu> writes:
>
> >    > Corking.
> >
> >    What's that mean?
> >
> > >From WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]:
> >
> >   corking
> >        adj : (informal) very good; "a bully pulpit"; "a neat sports car";
> >              "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply
> >              smashing" [syn: {bang-up}, {bully}, {cracking}, {dandy},
> >               {great}, {groovy}, {keen}, {neat}, {nifty}, {not
> >              bad(p)}, {peachy}, {slap-up}, {swell}, {smashing}]
>
> And I thought I knew this language!  Wow, what a corking word.
>

IIRC, it was in wide use in the 1920-30s as "corker".

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