| corn bread, esp. of a plain or simple kind. |
[kawrn-pohn] 
| of or characteristic of an unsophisticated rural person, esp. from the South; hick: a corn-pone accent. |
| corn·pone or corn pone (kôrn' pōn') n. Chiefly Southern & Midland U.S. See johnnycake. See Regional Notes at johnnycake, light bread, pone. adj. Informal Folksy and homespun, as in manner or speech: a penchant for cornpone humor; cornpone political prose. |