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corny

Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːni/

The English word “corny” has 9 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Boring and unoriginal.
  2. Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.
  3. Uncool, stupid, lame.
  4. Containing corn.
  5. Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
  6. Tipsy; drunk.
  7. Horny (sexually aroused; experiencing sexual desire).
  8. Having or pertaining to corns (a type of callus).
  9. Horny; strong, stiff or hard like horn; resembling horn.

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.

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