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(Cockney UK) Expression of surprise. quotations examples
[…] 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
plural cors
(historical units of measure) Various former units of volume, particularly:
A Hebrew unit of liquid volume, about equal to 230 L or 60 gallons. examples
Synonym of homer: approximately the same volume as a dry measure. examples
A roughly equivalent Phoenician unit of volume. examples