corncob
/ˈkɔɹn.kɑb/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.85 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "London is like a shelled corncob on the Derby day, and there is not a clerk who could raise the money to hire a saddle with an old hack under it that can sit down on his office-stool the next day without wincing."
- "Six years of persistent research at the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture, has resulted in establishing the fact that a number of interesting and useful by-products can be derived from the humble corncob."
- "He bit into a corncob, and Chisom watched him munch with his mouth open, his jaws working the corn like a mini grinding machine."
- "“Do you enjoy being corncobbed?”"
- "Trump had lost but was denying that this was the case. He had been corncobbed."
- "Distracted cops, rude asteroids and the corncobbing of Andrew Koenig"
Etymology
From corn + cob. The Internet slang sense emerged from a 2011 absurdist tweet by Weird Twitter personality dril in which a man furiously denies being owned as he transforms into a corncob.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkɔɹn.kɑb/
Usage
- Informal
- Intransitive verb
- American usage
- Transitive verb