cor

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   surpriseinterjectioncolloquialUK

   Used to express surprise.

   Cor, I never thought they'd actually win the cup!

   Cor, you should have seen the queue outside the shop this morning!

   UsageStarts a surprised remark, Cor, look at that!, and appears in cor blimey. It suits relaxed, playful talk.

   Similarblimey, crikey, wow, gosh

   Note

   A softened oath: God, either bent into a sound that could be said without blasphemy or simply said the way dialect speakers say it. Wodehouse's Jeeves in the Offing (1960) gives a character the full extravagance of "Cor chase my Aunt Fanny up a gum tree." Source

   Checked 1 Nov 2026 · 4 facts

   • The exclamation derives from God as a minced oath or dialectal variant. en.wiktionary.org
   • P. G. Wodehouse wrote Jeeves in the Offing. en.wikipedia.org
   • Jeeves in the Offing was first published as a book in 1960. openlibrary.org
   • A character says the quoted words in Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VII. en.wiktionary.org
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   street addressnounPhilippinesabbreviation

   An abbreviation of "corner" used in street addresses to name the intersection where a place is located.

   The new branch opens Monday at Ayala Ave. cor. Paseo de Roxas.

   Her business card listed the clinic's address as Lake Rd. cor. Hill St., second floor.

   UsageWritten between two street names, often with a period, Lake Rd. cor. Hill St., and read aloud as corner.

   Similarcorner

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   Hebrew measurenounhistoricalcountable

   An ancient Hebrew and Phoenician unit of capacity, equal to a homer (roughly 220 to 230 liters), used for grain, oil, wine, and other goods.

   The steward delivered a cor of olive oil to the household each season.

   Ancient records from the region list payments of barley and oil measured in cors, a unit roughly equal to a homer.

   Note

   A borrowing straight from Biblical Hebrew kōr, the word belongs to historical and scriptural reckoning rather than to any measure still in use. As a quantity it is large, around 230 liters. As a dry measure for grain it was the same size as the homer, the largest unit in the system. Source

   Checked 1 Nov 2026 · 4 facts

   • Cor is a historical unit associated with scriptural measurement. en.wiktionary.org
   • A cor is approximately 230 liters. wartburgproject.org
   • As a dry measure, the cor equaled the homer. wartburgproject.org
   • The cor or homer was the largest unit in the biblical dry capacity system. en.wikipedia.org

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