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corned

[kawrnd] Origin

corned

[kawrnd]
adjective
marinated in brine, often containing garlic, peppercorns, cloves, etc.; preserved or cured with salt: corned beef.

Origin:
1570–80; corn1 + -ed2

un·corned, adjective

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corn

1[kawrn]
noun
1.
Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
2.
the grain, seeds, or kernels of this plant, used for human food or for fodder.
3.
the ears of this plant.
4.
the edible seed of certain other cereal plants, especially wheat in England and oats in Scotland.
5.
the plants themselves.
EXPAND
8.
Skiing. corn snow.
9.
Informal. old-fashioned, trite, or mawkishly sentimental material, as a joke, a story, or music.
COLLAPSE
verb (used with object)
10.
to preserve and season with salt in grains.
11.
to preserve and season with brine.
12.
to granulate, as gunpowder.
13.
to plant (land) with corn.
14.
to feed with corn.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Dutch koren, Old Norse korn, German Korn, Gothic kaúrn; akin to Latin grānum grain, Russian zernó
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World English Dictionary
corned (kɔːnd)
 
adj
(esp of beef) cooked and then preserved or pickled in salt or brine, now often canned

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Word Origin & History

corn
"hardening of skin," c.1440, from O.Fr. corn "horn," later, "corn on the foot," from L. cornu "horn" (see horn).
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Medical Dictionary

corn 2 (kôrn)
n.
A small conical callosity caused by pressure over a bony prominence, usually on a toe. Also called clavus, heloma.

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Slang Dictionary

corn definition


  1. n.
    money. : I need some corn to pay the rent.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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corned definition


  1. mod.
    alcohol intoxicated. : Let's go out and get corned!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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