corny
UK/ˈkɔːni/US/ˈkɔɹni/
corny adjective: boring and unoriginal.
Adjective (1)
corny (comparative cornier, superlative corniest)
- Boring and unoriginal.
- The duct tape and wire was a pretty corny solution.
- I mean if a boy's mother was sort of fat or corny-looking or something, and if somebody’s father was one of those guys that wear those suits with very big shoulders and corny black-and-white shoes, then old Haas would just shake hands with them and give them a phony smile and then he'd go talk, for...1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 19
- Synonyms:
- humdrum, tedious, uninteresting, banal, basic, mindless, beat, blah, commonplace, bland
- Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.
- The movie was okay, but the love scene was really corny.
- He sent a bouquet of twelve red roses and a card: "Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, So are you." How corny is that?
- Uncool, stupid, lame.
- Dreya shakes her head and rolls her eyes. "I'm going to bed. Y'all corny."2010, Nikki Carter, Not A Good Look, page 221
- “You and your silly bitch better give me fifty feet before both y'all corny asses get slam dunked in that pool.”2014, Niobia Bryant, Never Keeping Secrets, page 69
- Containing corn.
- Country Cornbread Muffins (page 290) / Marlene Says: The cool crunchy salad and slightly sweet corny muffins are perfect partners to the creamy, spicy black bean soup.2012, Marlene Koch, Eat More of What You Love, Running Press, →ISBN
- There are cornbread recipes, and there are cornbread recipes. This one absolutely sings. Based on her daddy’s, and then her sister’s, beloved skillet-made bread, Maggie’s own recipe developed over time. It’s more about method, she says, but using stone-ground cornmeal and whole buttermilk are just...2014, Nancy Vienneau, The Third Thursday Community Potluck Cookbook: Recipes and Stories to Celebrate the Bounty of the Moment, Nelson Books, Thomas Nelson, page 180
- Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
- The corny ear.1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, (please specify the page)
- Tipsy; drunk.
- Yen day when aw was corney.1850, Joseph Philip Robson, France's Songs of the Bards of the Tyne
- Horny (sexually aroused; experiencing sexual desire).
Adjective (2)
corny (comparative more corny, superlative most corny)
- Having or pertaining to corns (a type of callus).
- I had not long in open Street, / Been puniſhing my Corny Feet, […]1705, Edward Ward, “Part the Third. Canto IV.”, in Hudibras Redivivus: or A Burlesque Poem on the Times. […], 3rd edition, London: […] George Sawbridge, […], published 1715, →OCLC, page 4
- In this fine Order they proceeded, / The Grave, the Wiſe, the Bullet-headed, […] / The Craſy, Gouty, and the Corny, […]1706, Edward Ward, “Part VI. Vol. II. Canto VI.”, in Hudibras Redivivus: or A Burlesque Poem on the Times. […], 3rd edition, London: […] George Sawbridge, […], published 1715, →OCLC, page 22
Adjective (3)
corny (comparative more corny, superlative most corny)
corny meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada and Arabic
corny in Urdu
- اناج کا, گٹے دار
corny in Malayalam
- trite, banal, hackneyed
- പഴഞ്ചനായ, വിരസമായ, സർവ്വസാധാരണം, നിസ്സാരം, തുച്ഛം, സാമാന്യമായ
corny in Kannada
- ಹೇಳಿದ್ದೇ ಹೇಳುವ, ಸವಕಲು, ಚರ್ವಿತಚರ್ವಣವಾದ
corny in Arabic
- excessively sentimental
- ثَقِيل الظَِلّ ṯaqīl aẓ-ẓaill, سَخِيف saḵīf
More languagesFewer languages
- corny in Indonesian
- murahan
- corny in Thai
- เฉิ่ม chə̀m, เชย chəəi, เปิ่น bpə̀n, แป้ก bpɛ̂k
Examples of corny in a sentence
- Y'all haters corny with that Illuminati mess2016, Beyoncé, “Formation”, in Lemonade:
- What emerges is a rich “corny” bread, an almost melting soft interior encased in a ridiculously toothsome crust.2014, Nancy Vienneau, The Third Thursday Community Potluck Cookbook: Recipes and Stories to Celebrate the Bounty of the Moment, Nelson...
- Fiesta Corny Muffins / Cornbread goes with everything: salad, soup, and chili.2016, Stephanie Clarke, Willow Jarosh, Healthy, Happy Pregnancy Cookbook, Atria Paperback, →ISBN, page 83:
- Have beans, bacon, and cornbread for dinner.[…]Have peas, bacon, and corny bread for dinner.2019, George O. Wilson, Jr., Osborne Wilson’s Civil War Diaries, Christian Faith Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:
Synonyms of corny
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Forms of corny
| comparative | cornier |
|---|---|
| superlative | corniest |
| comparative | more corny |
| superlative | most corny |
Origin of corny
From Middle English corny, equivalent to corn (“a type of cereal or grain”) + -y. Piecewise doublet of grainy. In the "hackneyed" sense, from "corn catalogue jokes", reputedly low-quality jokes that were formerly printed in mail-order seed catalogues.
From corn (“a type of callus”) + -y. Piecewise doublet of horny.
From Middle French corne + English -y, or from Latin cornu + English -y. Piecewise doublet of horny.
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Questions about corny
- What does corny mean?
- Corny means boring and unoriginal.
- What is corny in Urdu?
- Corny in Urdu is اناج کا, گٹے دار. See Corny meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use corny in a sentence?
- Y'all haters corny with that Illuminati mess
- What part of speech is corny?
- Corny is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce corny?
- Corny is pronounced /ˈkɔːni/ (UK).
Words near corny in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: corny (page history and authors); corny (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); corny (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); corny (Kannada 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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