/ˈkɔːni/, /ˈkɔɹni/
OriginFrom Middle English corny, equivalent to corn (“a type of cereal or grain”) + -y. Piecewise doublet of grainy. In the "hackneyed" sense, from "corn catalogue jokes", reputedly low-quality jokes that were formerly printed in mail-order seed catalogues.
- Boring and unoriginal.
“The duct tape and wire was a pretty corny solution.”
“I mean if a boy's mother was sort of fat or corny-looking or something, and if somebody’s father was one of those guys that wear those suits with very big shoulders and corny black-and-white shoes, th”
- Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.
“The movie was okay, but the love scene was really corny.”
“He sent a bouquet of twelve red roses and a card: "Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, And so are you." How corny is that!”
- slangUncool, stupid, lame.
“Dreya shakes her head and rolls her eyes. "I'm going to bed. Y'all corny."”
““You and your silly bitch better give me fifty feet before both y'all corny asses get slam dunked in that pool.””
“Y'all haters corny with that Illuminati mess”
- rareContaining corn.
“Country Cornbread Muffins (page 290) / Marlene Says: The cool crunchy salad and slightly sweet corny muffins are perfect partners to the creamy, spicy black bean soup.”
“There are cornbread recipes, and there are cornbread recipes. This one absolutely sings. Based on her daddy’s, and then her sister’s, beloved skillet-made bread, Maggie’s own recipe developed over tim”
““CORNY” BREAD MUFFINS + HONEY BUTTER (GRAIN-, DAIRY-, SOY-, NIGHTSHADE-FREE) Well, making cornbread without corn is kinda tricky, but since corn is indeed a grain, “real” cornbread will not be found h”
- obsoleteProducing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
- UK, obsolete, slangTipsy; drunk.
“Yen day when aw was corney.”
- euphemisticHorny (sexually aroused; experiencing sexual desire).
- Having or pertaining to corns (a type of callus).
“I had not long in open Street, / Been puniſhing my Corny Feet, […]”
“In this fine Order they proceeded, / The Grave, the Wiſe, the Bullet-headed, […] / The Craſy, Gouty, and the Corny, […]”
“E’en “Aunty Ann” her cleeky staff foregoes, / Forgets her asthma, and her corny toes; / Spreads out her petticoat, like peacock tail, / And up the dance begins to set her sail.”
- obsoleteHorny; strong, stiff or hard like horn; resembling horn.
“Up stood the cornie Reed.”
Formscornier(comparative) · corniest(superlative) · more corny(comparative) · most corny(superlative)