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cornfed

cornfed adjective: fed on corn.

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
    • a cornfed hillbilly
  3. (informal) Running on ethanol (E85).

Forms of cornfed

comparativemore cornfed
superlativemost cornfed

Origin of cornfed

From corn + fed.

Questions about cornfed

What does cornfed mean?
Cornfed means fed on corn.
What part of speech is cornfed?
Cornfed is an adjective.

Words near cornfed in the dictionary

  1. Corney Town
  2. Corneys
  3. corneæ
  4. Cornești
  5. cornfactor
  6. cornfed
  7. cornfest
  8. cornfests
  9. cornfield
  10. cornfield meet
  11. cornfield meets

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