Corny

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Corny \Cor"ny\ (k?r"n?), a. [L. cornu horn.]
     Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.
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           Up stood the cornu reed.                 --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Corny \Corn"y\, a.
     1. Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
        [R.] "The corny ear." --Prior.
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     2. Containing corn; tasting well of malt. [R.]
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              A draught of moist and corny ale.     --Chaucer.
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     3. Tipsy. [Vulgar, Eng.] --Forby.
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     4. overly or simplistically sentimental. [informal]
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     5. trite or tiresome; too weak to be effective; -- said of
        unsubtle attempts at humor; as, a corny joke; a corny
        skit. [informal]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  corny
       adj : dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or
             originality; "bromidic sermons" [syn: {bromidic}, {platitudinal},
              {platitudinous}]
       [also: {corniest}, {cornier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "corny":
     back-number, banal, bewhiskered, bromidic, cliched, common,
     commonplace, cut-and-dried, fade, familiar, fusty, hackney,
     hackneyed, moth-eaten, musty, old hat, platitudinous, set,
     shopworn, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, threadbare, timeworn,
     tired, trite, truistic, unoriginal, warmed-over, well-known,
     well-worn, worn, worn thin