cornhole
US/ˈkɔɹnˌhoʊl/
cornhole noun: a small room connected to a threshing floor.
Noun
cornhole (countable and uncountable, plural cornholes)
- A small room connected to a threshing floor.
- The cornhole was a small, brick room opening off the threshing floor, about six or seven feet high, […] variously known as the cornhole or cornbin, and was designed for flail threshing, holding the grain until it was winnowed.1969, J E C Peters, The Development of Farm Buildings in Western Lowland Staffordshire up to 1880, page 97
- A small room may be found opening off the threshing floor on one side […] This is the cornhole, a mid-eighteenth-century development so far known only in Staffordshire and Suffolk, with a few in east Sussex.1981, J E C Peters, Discovering Traditional Farm Buildings, page 17 with illustration
- A game similar to beanbag toss, popular in Ohio, in which a bag filled with corn feed is thrown into a hole.
- Cornhole, the indigenous pastime of Cincinnati's west side, is basically a democratized version of horseshoes.2002 October, “Cornhole Game”, in Cincinnati Magazine, page 114
- Cincinnatians, of course, know the true meaning of cornhole. The homegrown bag-toss game, which some suggest was even invented here, requires few tools: some beanbags, a box with a hole in it, and… well, that's it, really.2009, F. Winternitz, S. Bellman, Insiders' Guide to Cincinnati, page 230
- Synonyms:
- baggo, corn toss
- The anus.
Verb
cornhole (third-person singular simple present cornholes, present participle cornholing, simple past and past participle cornholed)
- To have anal intercourse with; to penetrate anally.
- He'd just sent away two more guards from the women's side for having lesbian affairs with the prisoners, and one male guard who'd got caught cornholing colored boys.2006, Settling Accounts, Book Three: The Grapple, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- sodomize
Synonyms of cornhole
- baggo
- corn toss
- sodomize
Forms of cornhole
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cornholes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | cornholes |
| present participle | cornholing |
| past participle | cornholed |
| past | cornholed |
Origin of cornhole
From corn + hole. (anus): From the old-fashioned practice of using dried corncobs instead of toilet paper in outdoor privies.
Questions about cornhole
- What does cornhole mean?
- Cornhole means a small room connected to a threshing floor.
- What part of speech is cornhole?
- Cornhole can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce cornhole?
- Cornhole is pronounced /ˈkɔɹnˌhoʊl/ (US).
- What is the plural of cornhole?
- The plural of cornhole is cornholes.
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