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corn-flakey

corn-flakey is the alternative form of cornflakey.

Meaning of cornflakey

Adjective

cornflakey (comparative more cornflakey, superlative most cornflakey)

  1. (informal) Resembling, characteristic of, or involving corn flakes.
    • She is 23, five up on me. Wide, placid face with pale cornflakey freckles, mild blue eyes, heavy white arms and legs, partial to short skirts and tight sweaters.1980, W[illiam] P[atrick] Kinsella, Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa, [Ottawa, Ont.]: Oberon Press, →ISBN, page 57

Forms of corn-flakey

comparativemore corn-flakey
superlativemost corn-flakey

Origin of corn-flakey

From corn flake + -y.

Questions about corn-flakey

What is corn-flakey the alternative form of?
Corn-flakey is the alternative form of cornflakey.

Words near corn-flakey in the dictionary

  1. corn-factor
  2. corn-factors
  3. corn-fed
  4. corn-flag
  5. corn-flags
  6. corn-flakey
  7. corn-flaky
  8. corn-hog ratio
  9. corn-hog ratios
  10. corn-miller
  11. corn-millers

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