from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective Trite, dated, melodramatic, or mawkishly sentimental.
from The Century Dictionary.
Of the nature of corn; furnished with grains of corn.
Producing corn; abounding with corn.
Containing corn.
Produced from corn; tasting strongly of corn or malt.
Intoxicated; tipsy; corned.
Horny; corneous; strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.
adjective rare Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
adjective rare Containing corn; tasting well of malt.
adjective Vulgar, Eng. Tipsy.
adjective informal overly or simplistically sentimental.
adjective informal trite or tiresome; too weak to be effective; -- said of unsubtle attempts at humor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
adjective Insipid or trite.
adjective Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.
adjective obsolete Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
adjective Containing corn; tasting well of malt.
adjective obsolete, UK, slangtipsy; drunk
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From corn.]
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corn + -y (from "corn catalogue jokes", reputedly low-quality jokes that were at a time commonly printed in mail order seed catalogues)
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Examples
At the state fair in Iowa, he ate what he called "corny dogs" and talked about growing up the son of a "dry-land cotton farmer" who appreciates the agricultural way of life.
At the state fair in Iowa, he ate what he called "corny dogs" and talked about growing up the son of a "dry-land cotton farmer" who appreciates the agricultural way of life.
At the state fair in Iowa, he ate what he called "corny dogs" and talked about growing up the son of a "dry-land cotton farmer" who appreciates the agricultural way of life.
The script for Brett Ratner’s “X-Men: The Last Stand” continued this theme, offering a “cure” for mutants that stripped them of their powers, but the movie also reveled in corny dialogue and moved too fast to be very cohesive.
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