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adjective, corn·i·er, corn·i·est.
1.
of or abounding in corn.
2.
Informal.
a.
old-fashioned, trite, or lacking in subtlety: corny jokes.
b.
mawkishly sentimental: a corny soap opera.
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Cornily
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| 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. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
corny
1570s, "full of corn, pertaining to corn, from corn (1). Chaucer used it of ale (late 14c.), perhaps to mean "malty." Amer.Eng. slang "old-fashioned, sentimental," is from 1932 (first attested in "Melody Maker"), perhaps originally "something appealing to country folk."
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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