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Corn

//kɔːn// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A surname.
2
A town in Oklahoma.

Noun

1
Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region. Commonwealth, uncountable, usually
"And hee ſaid, Beholde, I haue heard that there is corne in Egypt: get you downe thither and buy for vs from thence, that we may liue, and not die."
2
A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands. transitive
"Welcome Gentlemen, / Ladies that haue their toes / Vnplagu’d with Cornes, will walke about with you:[…]"
3
Something (e.g., acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion. Canada, US, transitive, uncountable
"He had a sharp wit, true enough, but also a good, healthy mountaineer's love of pure corn, the slapstick stuff, the in-jokes that get funnier with every repetition and never amuse anybody who wasn't there."
4
pornography; porn Internet, euphemistic, transitive, uncountable
5
something sentimental or trite wordnet

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6
Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays. Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, US, uncountable, usually
"The planting or sowing of maize, exclusively called corn, was just accomplished on the Town Hill, when I reached it."
7
An inflammatory disease of a horse's hoof, at the caudal part of the sole. transitive
8
ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food wordnet
9
A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop. uncountable, usually
"He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley."
10
Skin hyperplasia with underlying fibroma between both digits of cattle. transitive
11
whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn wordnet
12
A small, hard particle. uncountable, usually
"The least corn of sand is not so small to the whole earth, as man is to the heaven:[…]"
13
tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times wordnet
14
A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions. uncountable, usually
15
(Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region — wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland) wordnet
16
Bullets, ammunition, charge and discharge of firearms. Jamaica, Multicultural-London-English, slang, uncountable, usually
"R.I.P Scumpy ah you did say Popcaan And if a boy diss we clap corn."
17
the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal wordnet
18
Money. Jamaica, slang, uncountable, usually
"You know dem have wedge while we have corn. Say Cockney say be first, my son! We just say Gwan!"
19
a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes wordnet

Verb

1
To granulate; to form (a substance) into grains. Canada, US, transitive
"to corn gunpowder"
2
preserve with large-grained rock salt wordnet
3
To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef. Canada, US, transitive
4
feed (cattle) with corn wordnet
5
To provide (an animal) with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed. Canada, US, transitive
"Corn the horses."

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6
To render intoxicated. obsolete, transitive
"ale strong enough to corn one"
7
To shoot up with bullets as by a shotgun (corn). Jamaica, Multicultural-London-English, slang, transitive
"Anywhere, anytime, I'll get him, if he's in love; I'll corn his wedding He backed his wetter, I backed my wetter but who really held that wetting?"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-West Germanic *korn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain; worn-down”), from *ǵerh₂- (“grow old, mature”). Cognate with Dutch koren, German Low German Koorn, German Korn, Danish korn, Norwegian Bokmål korn, Norwegian Nynorsk korn and Swedish korn; see also Albanian grurë, Russian зерно́ (zernó), Czech zrno, Latin grānum and Lithuanian žirnis. Doublet of grain, gram, granum, and grao. The sense maize (Zea mays) is an ellipsis of Indian corn that developed in 18th century North America.

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

Inherited from Middle English corne, from Old French corn (modern French cor), from Latin cornū. Doublet of corno, cornu, and horn.

Etymology 4

From corny.

Etymology 5

Rhyming euphemism for porn, and with influence from the emoji substitute 🌽.

Etymology 6

* As an English surname, from the nouns crane, corn, and quern. * As a German surname, spelling variant of Korn, meaning "grain."

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