Corncob

//ˈkɔːn.kɒb// noun, verb, slang

noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The central cylindrical core of an ear of corn (maize) on which the kernels are attached in rows.

    "London is like a shelled corncob on the Derby day, and there is not a clerk who could raise the money to hire a saddle with an old hack under it that can sit down on his office-stool the next day without wincing."

  2. 2
    the hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn wordnet
  3. 3
    A yokel. informal
Verb
  1. 1
    To disintegrate by the blades becoming severed from the axis intransitive
  2. 2
    To defeat (someone) who then refuses to admit defeat. Internet, US, transitive

    "“Do you enjoy being corncobbed?”"

Synonyms

All synonyms
auricleboggerbogtrotterboorbriarbriar pipe

Example

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"And then, Oh, my! how his heart went pitter-pat, for right in front of him, not forty hops away, sat Danny Fox on a three legged stool smoking a corncob pipe."

Etymology

From corn + cob. The Internet slang sense emerged from a 2011 absurdist tweet by Weird Twitter personality dril in which a man furiously denies being owned as he transforms into a corncob.

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