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corn-fed

corn-fed is the alternative spelling of cornfed.

Meaning of cornfed

Adjective

cornfed (comparative more cornfed, superlative most cornfed)

  1. (not comparable) Fed on corn.
  2. (derogatory, informal, sometimes) Sheltered; uncultured.
    • Rock's friends, his real friends, present a picture of a nice guy: a Midwestern cornfed boy who heads west to Hollywood to break into pictures1980 August 30, Gordon Gottlieb, “Rock Hudson: A Sphinx Without Secrets”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 8
  3. (informal) Running on ethanol (E85).

Forms of corn-fed

comparativemore corn-fed
superlativemost corn-fed

Questions about corn-fed

What is corn-fed the alternative spelling of?
Corn-fed is the alternative spelling of cornfed.

Words near corn-fed in the dictionary

  1. corn-crakes
  2. corn-dodger
  3. corn-dodgers
  4. corn-factor
  5. corn-factors
  6. corn-fed
  7. corn-flag
  8. corn-flags
  9. corn-flakey
  10. corn-flaky
  11. corn-hog ratio

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Adapted from Wiktionary: corn-fed (page history and authors); cornfed (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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