corn

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈkɔːn/    /ˈkɔɹn/|/ˈkoːn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region. Commonwealth,uncountable,usually
    — And hee ſaid, Beholde, I haue heard that there is corne in Egypt: get you downe thither and buy for vs from thence, that we may liue, and not die.
  2. pornography; porn Internet,euphemistic,transitive,uncountable
  3. Something (e.g., acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion. Canada,US,transitive,uncountable
    — He had a sharp wit, true enough, but also a good, healthy mountaineer's love of pure corn, the slapstick stuff, the in-jokes that get funnier with every repetition and never amuse anybody who wasn't there.
  4. A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands. transitive
    — Welcome Gentlemen, / Ladies that haue their toes / Vnplagu’d with Cornes, will walke about with you:[…]
  5. Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays. Australia,Canada,New-Zealand,US,uncountable
    — The planting or sowing of maize, exclusively called corn, was just accomplished on the Town Hill, when I reached it.
  6. An inflammatory disease of a horse's hoof, at the caudal part of the sole. transitive
  7. Skin hyperplasia with underlying fibroma between both digits of cattle. transitive
  8. A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop. uncountable,usually
    — He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley.
  9. A small, hard particle. uncountable,usually
    — The least corn of sand is not so small to the whole earth, as man is to the heaven:[…]
  10. A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions. uncountable,usually
  11. Bullets, ammunition, and charge and discharge of firearms. Jamaica,Multicultural-London-English,slang,uncountable,usually
    — R.I.P Scumpy ah you did say Popcaan And if a boy diss we clap corn.
  12. Money. Jamaica,slang,uncountable,usually
    — You know dem have wedge while we have corn. Say Cockney say be first, my son! We just say Gwan!
动词 v.
  1. To granulate; to form (a substance) into grains. Canada,US,transitive
    — to corn gunpowder
  2. To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef. Canada,US,transitive
  3. To provide (an animal) with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed. Canada,US,transitive
    — Corn the horses.
  4. To render intoxicated. obsolete,transitive
    — ale strong enough to corn one
  5. To shoot up with bullets as by a shotgun (corn). Jamaica,Multicultural-London-English,slang,transitive
    — Anywhere, anytime, I'll get him, if he's in love; I'll corn his wedding He backed his wetter, I backed my wetter but who really held that wetting?

词形变化

corns plural corns present,singular,third-person corning participle,present corned participle,past corned past corns plural

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词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-West Germanic *korn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain; worn-down”), from *ǵerh₂- (“grow old, mature”).
Cognate with Dutch koren, German Low German Koorn, German Korn, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish korn; see also Albanian grurë, Russian зерно́ (zernó), Czech zrno, Latin grānum and Lithuanian žirnis. Doublet of grain, gram, granum, and grao.
The sense maize (Zea mays) is an ellipsis of Indian corn that developed in 18th century North America.
词源 2
Inherited from Middle English corne, from Old French corn (modern French cor), from Latin cornū. Doublet of corno, cornu, and horn.
词源 3
From corny.
词源 4
Rhyming euphemism for porn, and with influence from the emoji substitute 🌽.
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