English: habitational name from any of various places in
northern England. Those in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire are named
with the Old Norse personal name Kori (see Cory) + Old
Norse býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’, whereas the one in Cumbria
has as its first element the Old Irish personal name Corc.French: from a diminutive of corb ‘crow’.Irish:
variant of Corboy.
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