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In some senses, corny is marked as slang, obsolete, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
big, black-and-white, pretty
VERB + CORNY
hing, laughs, sound
CORNY + NOUN
feet, shoes, solution, th, toes
PREP.
out, up, with
ADV.
really
adj
Boring and unoriginal.
The duct tape and wire was a pretty corny solution.
I mean if a boy's mother was sort of fat or corny-looking or something, and if somebody’s father was one of those guys that wear those suits with very big shoulders and corny black-and-white shoes, then old Haas would just shake hands with them and give them a phony smile and then he'd go talk, for maybe a half an hour, with somebody else's parents.
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, So are you." How corny is that?
Uncool, stupid, lame.
Dreya shakes her head and rolls her eyes. "I'm going to bed. Y'all corny."
“You and your silly bitch better give me fifty feet before both y'all corny asses get slam dunked in that pool.”
Containing corn.
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.
There are cornbread recipes, and there are cornbread recipes. This one absolutely sings. Based on her daddy’s, and then her sister’s, beloved skillet-made bread, Maggie’s own recipe developed over time. It’s more about method, she says, but using stone-ground cornmeal and whole buttermilk are just as important. And a hot, seasoned cast-iron skillet is a must. What emerges is a rich “corny” bread, an almost melting soft interior encased in a ridiculously toothsome crust.
Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
The corny ear.
adj
Having or pertaining to corns (a type of callus).
I had not long in open Street, / Been puniſhing my Corny Feet, […]
In this fine Order they proceeded, / The Grave, the Wiſe, the Bullet-headed, […] / The Craſy, Gouty, and the Corny, […]
adj
Horny; strong, stiff or hard like horn; resembling horn.
Up stood the cornie Reed.
adjective — dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or or
The duct tape and wire was a pretty corny solution.
WiktionaryI mean if a boy's mother was sort of fat or corny-looking or something, and if somebody’s father was one of those guys that wear those suits with very big shoulders and corny black-and-white shoes, th
WiktionaryThe movie was okay, but the love scene was really corny.
WiktionaryI had not long in open Street, / Been puniſhing my Corny Feet, […]
WiktionaryIn this fine Order they proceeded, / The Grave, the Wiſe, the Bullet-headed, […] / The Craſy, Gouty, and the Corny, […]
WiktionaryE’en “Aunty Ann” her cleeky staff foregoes, / Forgets her asthma, and her corny toes; / Spreads out her petticoat, like peacock tail, / And up the dance begins to set her sail.
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In some senses, corny is marked as slang, obsolete, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.