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corny¹
- /ˈkɔːni/ UK
- /ˈkɔɹni/ US
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)ni
Where it comes from
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.
adjective cornier · corniest
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Boring and unoriginal.
The duct tape and wire was a pretty corny solution.
Similar: humdrum, tedious, uninteresting, banal, basic, mindless, beat, blah, commonplace, bland, boring, cold
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Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.
The movie was okay, but the love scene was really corny.
Similar: banal, clichéd, kitschy, tacky, cheesy, schmaltzy, bathetic, bromidic, stock, commonplace, corny, dog-eared
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Uncool, stupid, lame.
Dreya shakes her head and rolls her eyes. "I'm going to bed. Y'all corny."
Similar: lousy, peak, wack, cringe, cheugy, abysmal, atrocious, awful, bad, chronic, coarse, corny
- 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.
- Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn. The corny ear.
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Tipsy; drunk.
Yen day when aw was corney.
Similar: 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
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Horny (sexually aroused; experiencing sexual desire).
Similar: amorous, randy, turned on, ablaze, aroused, buckish, concupiscent, corny, desirous, drippy, DTF, excited
corny²
- /ˈkɔːni/ UK
- /ˈkɔɹni/ US
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)ni
Where it comes from
From corn (“a type of callus”) + -y. Piecewise doublet of horny.
adjective more corny · most corny
- Having or pertaining to corns (a type of callus). I had not long in open Street, / Been puniſhing my Corny Feet, […]
corny³
- /ˈkɔːni/ UK
- /ˈkɔɹni/ US
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)ni
Where it comes from
From Middle French corne + English -y, or from Latin cornu + English -y. Piecewise doublet of horny.
adjective more corny · most corny
- Horny; strong, stiff or hard like horn; resembling horn. Up stood the cornie Reed.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: unoriginal, platitudinal, platitudinous, bromidic, unremarkable, null, trivial, loser, stupid, idiot, fool, doofus, banal, dorky, lame, trite
Translations
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adj insipid or trite
| 日本語 | 寒い samui, べた beta |
|---|---|
| Français | banal |
| Deutsch | abgedroschen |
| Ελληνικά | τετριμμένος tetrimménos |
| Русский | бана́льный banálʹnyj |
adj excessively sentimental
| Español | cursi, huachafo, wacha, ñoño, sensiblero, hortera |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 肉麻 ròumá |
| Português | lamechas, piegas, brega |
| Français | dégoulinant, kitsch, sirupeux, mielleux, cucul, mièvre |
| Deutsch | kitschig, schmalzig |
| Italiano | sdolcinato |
| Ελληνικά | σαχλός sachlós |
| Русский | сентиментальный sentimentalʹnyj, слащавый slaščavyj |
| العربية | ثَقِيل الظَِلّ ṯaqīl aẓ-ẓaill, سَخِيف saḵīf |
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