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Corny
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- 1 Boring and unoriginal.
"The duct tape and wire was a pretty corny solution."
- 2 Having or pertaining to corns (a type of callus).
"I had not long in open Street, / Been puniſhing my Corny Feet, […]"
- 3 Horny; strong, stiff or hard like horn; resembling horn. obsolete
"Up stood the cornie Reed."
- 4 Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.
"The movie was okay, but the love scene was really corny."
- 5 Uncool, stupid, lame. slang
"Dreya shakes her head and rolls her eyes. "I'm going to bed. Y'all corny.""
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- 6 Containing corn. rare
"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."
- 7 Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn. obsolete
"The corny ear."
- 8 Tipsy; drunk. UK, obsolete, slang
"Yen day when aw was corney."
- 9 Horny (sexually aroused; experiencing sexual desire). euphemistic
- 1 dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality wordnet
Etymology
From 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.
From corn (“a type of callus”) + -y. Piecewise doublet of horny.
From Middle French corne or Latin cornu (“horn”) + -y.
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