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[kawrn-bawl]

corn·ball

[kawrn-bawl]
noun
1.
popcorn rolled into a ball and flavored with molasses or caramel.
2.
Informal.
a.
a person who indulges in clichés or sentimentality.
b.
a country bumpkin; hick.
adjective
3.
Informal. corny.

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Cornball is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

Origin:
1835–45, Americanism; corn1 + ball1; defs. 2, 3, influenced by slang sense of corn. Compare screwball, oddball
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cornball (ˈkɔːnˌbɔːl)
 
n
1.  a person given to mawkish or unsophisticated behaviour
 
adj
2.  another word for corny
 
[C20: from corn ball a sweet consisting of a ball of popcorn and molasses]

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cornball definition


  1. n.
    a stupid or corny person, especially if rural. : Who invited this cornball to my party?
  2. mod.
    stupid or corny. : What a cornball idea!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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