corny
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
corny (comparative cornier, superlative corniest)
- Boring and unoriginal.
- The duct tape and wire were a pretty corny solution.
- 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!
- (obsolete) Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
- The corny ear.
- Containing corn; tasting well of malt.
- A draught of moist and corny ale.
- (obsolete, UK, slang) tipsy; drunk
- (hackneyed or excessively sentimental) kitsch, kitschy, cheesy, tacky, campy, schlocky, schmaltzy
- (drunk) drunkish, squiffy; see Thesaurus:drunk
- French: banal
- German: abgedroschen
- Russian: бана́льный
- Spanish: insipido
- French: dégoulinant, kitsch, sirupeux
- German: kitschig, schmalzig
- Italian: sdolcinato
- Portuguese: meloso, piegas, brega
- Russian: сентиментальный
- Spanish: cursi
corny
- (obsolete) Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 7”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- Up stood the cornie Reed.
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