Talk:cork

Adjective

Seems like attributive use of the noun. Mglovesfun (talk) 09:53, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

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Rfv-sense: adjective. All the Google Book hits for "very cork" are for "his very cork" or "the very cork" meaning "the same cork". NB since this will be difficult to cite if it does exist, this should, IMO, be allowed more than a month. Mglovesfun (talk) 17:26, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

I found exactly one citation in our usual Google sources of the usage "more cork than" that might be showing an adjective usage. I would welcome opinions as to whether it showed true adjective use as it is of a kind of usage that is fairly common.

Incidentally, I found enough usage for attestation of "more Cork than" in reference to the county in Ireland (or its dialect or mores). Very many toponyms and demonyms can be found in such patterns. DCDuring TALK 17:53, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

I tend to think " […] was no more cork than my own" is use of cork as a mass noun. Not sure, mind you. Mglovesfun (talk) 00:09, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

I tend to agree. I think this is something other than a standard comparative use of "more." Compare:

The product looked like steel ; but it was no more steel than strong cold-short iron ever will be. — 1873, Frederick Overman, A. A. Fesquet, The manufacture of steel

He is no more a lexicologist than I am.

—Pingku 10:32, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

I agree that the cite proffered doesn't show that it's an adjective. I also doubt it is one.​—msh210℠ (talk) 17:10, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

• This distinguished trio's unanimous views (plus Ruakh's earlier similar views) may help keep me from offering such examples henceforth. Thanks. DCDuring TALK 18:24, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

I have removed the adjective section (RFV-failed), per the apparent consensus above. (I also made my own short search for adjective use, and found none.) Note, however, that I tried to preserve the translation information. - -sche (discuss) 22:01, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

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