corn-cob

Noun

corncob (plural corncobs)

1. The central cylindrical core of an ear of corn (maize) on which the kernels are attached in rows.
   • London is like a shelled corncob on the Derby day, and there is not a clerk who could raise the money to hire a saddle with an old hack under it that can sit down on his office-stool the next day without wincing.1857–1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], chapter I, in The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, published 1858, →OCLC, page 23
2. (informal) A yokel.

   Synonyms:

   cornhusker, hayseed, bogger, bogtrotter, boor, bucolic, bydlo, culchie, carl, churl

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