English Explanatory Dictionary

corny

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Boring and unoriginal.
  2. Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.
  3. Uncool, stupid, lame.
  4. Containing corn.
  5. Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
  6. Tipsy; drunk.
  7. Horny (sexually aroused; experiencing sexual desire).
adj
  1. Having or pertaining to corns (a type of callus).
adj
  1. Horny; strong, stiff or hard like horn; resembling horn.

Pronunciation

/ˈkɔːni/ /ˈkɔɹni/ En-au-corny.ogg

Word forms

corny cornier corniest more corny most corny

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

humdrum tedious uninteresting banal basic beat blah bland boring cold colourless corny drab stuffy dreich drowsy dull dull as dishwater flat heavy going ho-hum insipid lackluster lame languid lifeless longsome monotonous mundane no fun at parties plain plodding prosaic prosy pedantic pedestrian static straightforward snoozeworthy soporific uncool wan weaksauce wooden stodgy vapid vanilla clichéd kitschy tacky cheesy schmaltzy bathetic bromidic commonplace dog-eared hackneyed hoary overdone overused

Derived words

cornily corniness uncorny
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