different between chunky vs corny

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???ki/
• Rhymes: -??ki

Etymology 1

chunk +? -y

Adjective

chunky (comparative chunkier or more chunky, superlative chunkiest or most chunky)

1. Having chunks.

   I ate a chunky bar of chocolate.

   • 2012, Giuliano Hazan, Giuliano Hazan's Thirty Minute Pasta: 100 Quick and Easy Recipes, Open Road Media (?ISBN)

     They are traditionally served with meat sauces, but are also good with chunky vegetable sauces.
2. (euphemistic, of a person) Fat.

   I prefer chunky blonde girls to skinny brunettes.

   • 2009, Dan Elconin, Never After, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN), page 112:

     “Nigel used to be chunky, huh?” “I was not chunky,” Nigel said testily. “I was just... hefty .

   • 2011, Broxin Delano, Black Sparrow, BalboaPress (?ISBN), page 19:

     In sixth grade I was first propositioned by a chunky girl named Tijuana Downs. She called me on the telephone one evening and asked me if I would like to be her boyfriend.

3. Of a cat: having a large, solid bodyline.

   The British Shorthair has a distinctively chunky body, dense coat and broad face.

Synonyms

• (overweight): portly, rotund, obese, husky

Translations

Etymology 2

See chunkey.

Noun

chunky (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of chunkey (Native American game).
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:chunky.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??ni/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??ni/
• Rhymes: -??(?)ni

Etymology 1

From Middle English corny, equivalent to corn +? -y. In the "hackneyed" sense, from "corn catalogue jokes", reputedly low-quality jokes that were formerly printed in mail-order seed catalogues.

Adjective

corny (comparative cornier, superlative corniest)

1. Boring and unoriginal.

2. Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.

3. (obsolete) Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
   • 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon on the Vanity of the World

     The corny ear.

4. Containing corn; tasting well of malt.

   • A draughte of moyste and corny ale.

5. (obsolete, Britain, slang) tipsy; drunk

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Forby to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (hackneyed or excessively sentimental): kitsch, kitschy, cheesy, tacky, campy, schlocky, schmaltzy
• (drunk): drunkish, squiffy; see Thesaurus:drunk

Translations

Etymology 2

Latin cornu (“horn”).

Adjective

corny (comparative more corny, superlative most corny)

1. (obsolete) Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.

Anagrams

• Conry, crony, croyn, cry on

Middle English

Etymology

From corn +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?rni?/, /?k??rni?/

Adjective

corny

1. (rare) fleshy, swollen
2. (rare) malty; tasting of malt.
3. (rare) Resembling a grain.

Descendants

• English: corny
• Scots: cornie (obsolete, rare)
• >? Yola: cornee

References

• “c??rn?, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-08.