corky
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- s (of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin
- In the Stravinsky piece, he may have lacked the proper corky bite, but his Brahms had a propulsive, thunderous intensity that swept his audience into a roar of applause.
- The rest of the time these actors go corky on their lines, overact operatically or sit and talk.