corny
/ˈkɔɹni/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.23 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Boring and unoriginal.
adj
adj
adj
adj
Having or pertaining to corns (a type of callus).
Example Sentences
- "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 just shake hands with them and give them a phony smile and then he'd go talk, for maybe a half an hour, with somebody else's parents."
- "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?"
- "Dreya shakes her head and rolls her eyes. "I'm going to bed. Y'all corny.""
- "“You and your silly bitch better give me fifty feet before both y'all corny asses get slam dunked in that pool.”"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-nóm Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂-nós Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm Proto-Germanic *kurną Proto-West Germanic *korn Old English corn Middle English corn Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y Middle English corny English corny 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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkɔɹni/
- British English: /ˈkɔːni/