cor meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

cor

intjalso spelled COR, CoR

CA, US /kɔɹ/ · UK /kɔː/

Etymology A minced oath or dialectal variant of God.

Cockney, UK Expression of surprise.

[…] She perused it with an interested eye and having mastered its contents said, “Cor chase my Aunt Fanny up a gum tree,” adding that you never knew what was going to happen next these days.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

noun

Contracting Officer's Technical Representative, or Contracting Officer's Representative, in U.S. government procurement.

noun

College of Radiographers, a charitable subsidiary of the Society of Radiographers.

European Committee of the Regions, the European Union's assembly of local and regional representatives.

Confederation of Regions Party of Canada, Canadian political party.

noun

Etymology Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew כֹּר (kōr).

› Any of various former units of volume

Units of measure Historical A Hebrew unit of liquid volume, about equal to 230 L or 60 gallons.

Units of measure Historical Synonym of homer: approximately the same volume as a dry measure.

Units of measure Historical A roughly equivalent Phoenician unit of volume.

Synonyms: homer, omer
Related terms: cor bovinum, cor pulmonale, cor triatriatum
Meronyms: log (1⁄720 cor), cab, kab (1⁄180 cor), hin (1⁄60 cor), bath (1⁄10 cor), homer

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