corny

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɔːni/    美 /ˈkɔɹni/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Boring and unoriginal.
    — The duct tape and wire was a pretty corny solution.
  2. Having or pertaining to corns (a type of callus).
    — I had not long in open Street, / Been puniſhing my Corny Feet, […]
  3. Horny; strong, stiff or hard like horn; resembling horn. obsolete
    — Up stood the cornie Reed.
  4. Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.
    — The movie was okay, but the love scene was really corny.
  5. Uncool, stupid, lame. slang
    — Dreya shakes her head and rolls her eyes. "I'm going to bed. Y'all corny."
  6. Containing corn. rare
    — Country Cornbread Muffins (page 290) / Marlene Says: The cool crunchy salad and slightly sweet corny muffins are perfect partners to the creamy, spicy black bean soup.
  7. Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn. obsolete
    — The corny ear.
  8. Tipsy; drunk. UK,obsolete,slang
    — Yen day when aw was corney.
  9. Horny (sexually aroused; experiencing sexual desire). euphemistic

词形变化

cornier comparative corniest superlative more corny comparative most corny superlative more corny comparative most corny superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
cornily corniness uncorny

词源

词源 1
From Middle English corny, equivalent to corn (“a type of cereal or grain”) + -y. Piecewise doublet of grainy. In the "hackneyed" sense, from "corn catalogue jokes", reputedly low-quality jokes that were formerly printed in mail-order seed catalogues.
词源 2
From corn (“a type of callus”) + -y. Piecewise doublet of horny.
词源 3
From Middle French corne or Latin cornu (“horn”) + -y.
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