corny
Boring and unoriginal.
Adjective
- 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...
Synonyms: humdrum tedious uninteresting banal basic beat blah commonplace bland boring cold colourless corny drab stuffy dreich drowsy dull dull as dishwater flat heavy going ho-hum insipid lackluster
- 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?
Synonyms: banal clichéd kitschy tacky cheesy schmaltzy bathetic bromidic commonplace corny dog-eared hackneyed hoary overdone overused overworked pat played out shopworn stale threadbare timeworn tired trite
- Uncool, stupid, lame.
- Dreya shakes her head and rolls her eyes. "I'm going to bed. Y'all corny." - 2010, Nikki Carter, Not A Good Look, page 221:
- “You and your silly bitch better give me fifty feet before both y'all corny asses get slam dunked in that pool.” - 2014, Niobia Bryant, Never Keeping Secrets, page 69:
- Y'all haters corny with that Illuminati mess - 2016, Beyoncé, “Formation”, in Lemonade:
Synonyms: lousy peak wack cringe cheugy abysmal atrocious awful bad chronic coarse corny crap crapalicious crappy crummy deityforsaken dire disagreeable dismal dogshit dreadful fifth-rate foul
- 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. - 2012, Marlene Koch, Eat More of What You Love,...
- 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...
- “CORNY” BREAD MUFFINS + HONEY BUTTER (GRAIN-, DAIRY-, SOY-, NIGHTSHADE-FREE) Well, making cornbread without corn is kinda tricky, but since corn is indeed a grain, “real” cornbread will not be found here. - 2015,...
- Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
- The corny ear. - 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- Tipsy; drunk.
- Yen day when aw was corney. - 1850, Joseph Philip Robson, France's Songs of the Bards of the Tyne:
Synonyms: drunkish squiffy Adrian Quist adrip aled up all mops and brooms arseholed a sheet in the wind a sheet in the wind's eye bedrunken befuddled beliquored besotted besotten bevvied bibacious bibulous binned bingoed bladdered blasted blewed blind blind drunk
- Horny (sexually aroused; experiencing sexual desire).
Synonyms: amorous randy turned on ablaze aroused buckish concupiscent corny desirous drippy DTF excited flustered frisky fuckish gagging for it horny hot hot and bothered hot to trot impure in heat lascivious lewd
Origin
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.
Forms
Derived
Adjective Entry 2
- Having or pertaining to corns (a type of callus).
- I had not long in open Street, / Been puniſhing my Corny Feet, […] - 1705, Edward Ward, “Part the Third. Canto IV.”, in Hudibras Redivivus: or A Burlesque Poem on the Times. […], 3rd edition, London: […] George...
- In this fine Order they proceeded, / The Grave, the Wiſe, the Bullet-headed, […] / The Craſy, Gouty, and the Corny, […] - 1706, Edward Ward, “Part VI. Vol. II. Canto VI.”, in Hudibras Redivivus: or A Burlesque Poem on...
- E’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. - 1821 June, Juvenalis, Junior...
Origin
From corn (“a type of callus”) + -y. Piecewise doublet of horny.
Forms
Adjective obsolete
- Horny; strong, stiff or hard like horn; resembling horn.
- Up stood the cornie Reed. - 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC;...
Origin
From Middle French corne or Latin cornu (“horn”) + -y.