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cornball

/ˈkɔɹn.bɔl/

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cot caught merger/ˈkɔɹn.bɑl/

cornball noun: a ball of popped corn stuck together with soft candy from molasses or sugar.

Noun

cornball (plural cornballs)

  1. A ball of popped corn stuck together with soft candy from molasses or sugar.
    • How large and inviting were the cornballs that piled the platter, and how crisp and glossy the braids and twists of molasses candy that mother and cousin had made when the little ones were snug in bed.1871, The Myrtle, volume 21, page 301
  2. (US, informal) An unsophisticated person.
  3. (US, informal) Something or someone excessively corny.
    • That movie was a real cornball.
    • [Paul] Rudd, especially, finds the perfect balance between synthetic cornball charm and actual emotional engagement. Like the movie itself, he’s best when playing the rom-com clichés straight.2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2017
  4. (Internet, US) A corny person; an uncool, stupid, or lame person.
    • Who's this cornball, man?

Adjective

cornball (comparative more cornball, superlative most cornball)

  1. (informal) Naive, corny.
    • I know this sounds cornball, but I'd like to somehow make a difference in people's lives.1994, Helen Childress, Reality Bites, spoken by Lelaina (Winona Ryder)
    • The Brady Bunch Movie, released in February of 1995, was built on this ambivalence: It was both an affectionate appreciation of the 1970s family sitcom and a parody of everything that made it cornball and outdated.2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN

cornball meaning in Urdu

cornball in Urdu

فرسودہ, گھسا پٹا

Forms of cornball

Noun
pluralcornballs
Adjective
comparativemore cornball
superlativemost cornball

Origin of cornball

From corn + ball.

Words formed from cornball

Questions about cornball

What does cornball mean?
Cornball means a ball of popped corn stuck together with soft candy from molasses or sugar.
What is cornball in Urdu?
Cornball in Urdu is فرسودہ, گھسا پٹا. See Cornball meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is cornball?
Cornball can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce cornball?
Cornball is pronounced /ˈkɔɹn.bɔl/.
What is the plural of cornball?
The plural of cornball is cornballs.

Words near cornball in the dictionary

  1. cornaleans
  2. cornamuse
  3. cornamuses
  4. cornamute
  5. cornamutes
  6. cornball
  7. cornballish
  8. cornballs
  9. cornbeef
  10. Cornberg
  11. cornbin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cornball (page history and authors); cornball (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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