corned

Consisting of grains; granulated.

Adjective

  1. Consisting of grains; granulated.
  2. Preserved in salt.
    • Here’s a grocery list of foods Chestnut has eaten competitively, drawn from his Major League Eating bio: apple pie, asparagus, boysenberry pie, brats, burritos, chicken spiedies (a kind of sandwich), chicken wings,...
  3. Drunk.
    • A year ago last Fo'th July / A lot of the boys was here. / We all got corned and signed the pledge / For to drink no more that year. - 1890, John Hay, “The Pledge at Spunky Point”, in Poems, page 30:

Origin

From corn + -ed. Piecewise doublet of grained.

Derived

corned beef corned-out uncorned

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of corn