cornball
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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 (ˈkɔːnˌbɔːl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —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
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| 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. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
Slang Dictionary
cornball definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
There are scenes that are simply echoes of the literature of the thirties, and they were cornball even then.
He may even have believed the cornball emotions in his songs.
Jazz, blues and rock in the background occasionally turns cornball.
As anyone who's spent time in a sing-along club knows, karaoke has earned its reputation as a cornball pursuit for boozy wannabes.
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