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cornball
English
Etymology
corn +? ball
Noun
cornball (plural cornballs)
- A ball of popped corn stuck together with soft candy from molasses or sugar.
- 1871, The Myrtle (volume 21, page 301)
- How large and inviting were the cornballs that piled the platter, and how crisp and glossy the braids and twists of molasses candy that mother and cousin had made when the little ones were snug in bed.
- 1871, The Myrtle (volume 21, page 301)
- (US, informal) An unsophisticated person.
- (US, informal) Something excessively corny.
See also
- cornfed
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corn
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k??n/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /k??n/
- Rhymes: -??(?)n
Etymology 1
From Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-Germanic *kurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?r?h?nóm (“grain; worn-down”), from *?erh?- (“grow old, mature”). Cognate with Dutch koren, German Low German Koorn, German Korn, Norwegian Bokmål korn, Norwegian Nynorsk korn and Swedish korn; see also Albanian grurë, Russian ?????? (zernó), Czech zrno, Latin gr?num, Lithuanian žirnis and English grain.
In sense 'maize' a shortening from earlier Indian corn.
Noun
corn (usually uncountable, plural corns)
- (Britain, uncountable) The main cereal plant grown for its grain in a given region, such as oats in parts of Scotland and Ireland, and wheat or barley in England and Wales.
- (US, Canada, Australia, uncountable) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
- A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
- A small, hard particle.
- (MLE, slang, uncountable) bullets, ammunition, charge and discharge of firearms
Derived terms
Descendants
- Tok Pisin: kon
- ? Maori: k?nga
Translations
See also
Verb
corn (third-person singular simple present corns, present participle corning, simple past and past participle corned)
- (US, Canada) to granulate; to form a substance into grains
- (US, Canada) to preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef
- (US, Canada) to provide with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed
- (transitive) to render intoxicated
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English corne, from Old French corn (modern French cor), from Latin cornu.
Noun
corn (plural corns)
- A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.
- Synonym: clavus
Hyponyms
- callus
Translations
Etymology 3
This use was first used in 1932, as corny, something appealing to country folk.
Noun
corn (uncountable)
- (US, Canada) Something (e.g. acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.
- 1975, Tschirlie, Backpacker magazine,
- He had a sharp wit, true enough, but also a good, healthy mountaineer's love of pure corn, the slapstick stuff, the in-jokes that get funnier with every repetition and never amuse anybody who wasn't there.
- 1975, Tschirlie, Backpacker magazine,
Derived terms
Etymology 4
From the resemblance to white corn kernels.
Noun
corn (uncountable)
- (uncountable) A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
- Synonym: corn snow
References
Anagrams
- Cron
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin corn?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?erh?- (“horn”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /?k??n/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?k?rn/
Noun
corn m (plural corns)
- horn (of animal)
- Synonym: banya
- (music) horn
Derived terms
- corn anglès
- cornar
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish corn (“drinking horn, goblet; trumpet, horn; curl”), from Latin corn?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ko???n??/
Noun
corn m (genitive singular coirn, nominative plural coirn)
- horn (musical instrument)
- drinking-horn
- Synonyms: corn óil, buabhall
- (sports) cup
- (racing) plate
Declension
Derived terms
Verb
corn (present analytic cornann, future analytic cornfaidh, verbal noun cornadh, past participle corntha)
- (transitive) roll, coil
Conjugation
Alternative forms
- cornaigh, cornáil
Mutation
Further reading
- "corn" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “corn” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “corn” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Middle English
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old English corn; from Proto-Germanic *kurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?r?h?nóm. Doublet of greyn.
Alternative forms
- corne, korn, coorn, curn, coren, koren
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?rn/, /k??rn/, /kurn/
Noun
corn (plural corn or cornes)
- Any plant that bears grain, especially wheat.
- A field planted with such plants.
- Any kind of grain (especially as food)
- A seed of a non-grain plant.
- A grain or seed used as a unit of weight.
- The optimum product; the superior portion.
- The deserving; those who are morally right.
- A bole (external tumourous growth).
Related terms
- corny
- kernel
- peper corn
Descendants
- English: corn (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: corn, curn
- Yola: koorn, coorn
References
- “c??rn, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-08.
Etymology 2
Noun
corn
- Alternative form of corne (“callus”)
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *kurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?r?h?nóm (“grain”). Cognate with Old Frisian korn, Old Saxon korn (Low German Koorn), Dutch koren, Old High German korn, Old Norse korn, Gothic ???????????????????? (kaurn).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /korn/, [kor?n]
Noun
corn n
- corn, a grain or seed
- 880-1150, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
- 880-1150, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
- a cornlike pimple, a corn on the foot
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: corn, corne, korn, coorn, curn, coren, koren
- English: corn (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: corn, curn
- Yola: koorn, coorn
Old French
Alternative forms
- cor, corne
Etymology
From Latin corn?.
Noun
corn m (oblique plural corns, nominative singular corns, nominative plural corn)
- horn (bony projection found on the head of some animals)
- horn (instrument used to create sound)
- Synonyms: olifan, graisle
Descendants
- French: cor
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [korn]
Etymology 1
From Latin corn?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?erh?- (“horn”).
Noun
corn n (plural coarne)
- horn
Declension
Derived terms
- încorna
- corn?ri
- cornos
Related terms
- cornut
Etymology 2
From Latin cornus.
Noun
corn m (plural corni)
- cornel, European cornel, Cornus mas
- rafter (of a house)
Declension
Related terms
- coarn?
See also
- sânger
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English corn, from Old English corn.
Noun
corn (plural corns)
- corn
- oats
- (in plural) crops (of grain)
Verb
corn (third-person singular present corns, present participle cornin, past cornt, past participle cornt)
- to feed (a horse) with oats or grain
Welsh
Etymology
Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin corn?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?rn/
Noun
corn m (plural cyrn)
- horn
- (obsolete) chimney
Derived terms
- rhewi'n gorn (“to freeze solid”)
- Siôn Corn (“Father Christmas, Santa Claus”)
Mutation
References
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “corn”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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