corny
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Definitions & Usage
Boring and unoriginal.
Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.
(African-American Vernacular, slang) Uncool, stupid, lame.
(rare) Containing corn.
(obsolete) Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
(obsolete, UK, slang) Tipsy; drunk.
(euphemistic) Horny (sexually aroused; experiencing sexual desire).
Having or pertaining to corns (a type of callus).
(obsolete) Horny; strong, stiff or hard like horn; resembling horn.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“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.”
— 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 19:
“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: