popmaize
popmaize noun: synonym of popcorn (“snack food”).
Noun
popmaize (countable and uncountable, plural popmaizes)
- Synonym of popcorn (“snack food”).
- It is called “maizypop” because the Londoners call what we term corn maize and refuse to call it anything else. Therefore it is necessary to name our popcorn “popmaize,” or, more euphoniously, “maizypop,” on that side. Under any other name it would be just as palatable, but might not be as easily...[1905 May 2, “Another Invasion”, in Duluth News Tribune, Duluth, Minn.: Duluth News Tribune Co., →OCLC, page 4, column 2
- Mr. [Otis] Barrett does not appear to realize that the word “corn,” as used by Americans, has so ramified in phrases and compounds of everyday use that to abandon it would entail an appalling number of other changes in our speech. Thus, to be consistent, we should have to substitute “maizemeal” for...[1913 April 26, “Misnamed Grains and Fruits”, in Scientific American: The Weekly Journal of Practical Information, volume CVIII, number 17, New York, N.Y.: Munn & Co., Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 374...
- Synonyms:
- popcorn
- Synonym of popcorn (“type of maize”).
- Some teratological phenomena of ears of maize were investigated in diallel crosses of the following lines selfed 7, 8 years: 4- and 8-rowed flint maize (P4, P8), 12- and 18-rowed dent maize (P12, P18), and an approximately 40-rowed popmaize (P40), with fasciated spherical ears.1959, Acta Biologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae: Supplementum, volume 3, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 35
- It seems that in the varieties of popmaize a certain amount of valuable germ-plasm can be found. In what way should we incorporate this material in our flint x dent programme of the early maturity groups?1960, Proceedings of the […] Meeting, Montpellier: European Association for Research on Plant Breeding, Maize and Sorghum Section, →ISSN, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- popcorn
Examples of popmaize in a sentence
- Therefore it is necessary to name our popcorn “popmaize,” or, more euphoniously, “maizypop,” on that side.[1905 May 2, “Another Invasion”, in Duluth News Tribune, Duluth, Minn.: Duluth News Tribune Co., →OCLC, page 4, column 2:
- No longer would Young America delight in the pink and the white varieties of “popcorn,” but in “popmaize”![1913 April 26, “Misnamed Grains and Fruits”, in Scientific American: The Weekly Journal of Practical Information, volume CVIII, number 17...
- POPMAIZE 10¢ A BAG / I’LL TAKE A BAG. / PLAIN OR BUTTERED? / BUTTERED. / THE COW AND CHURN ARE OVER THAT RISE.1980–1981, Tom K. Ryan, Tumbleweeds Country, New York, N.Y.: Fawcett Gold Medal, published May 1984, →ISBN:
- Under that heading, the Britannica refers to popcorn as popcorn and not, as I expected, popmaize.[1983 March 22, Carl Pohlner, Jr., “Cosmic Levity”, in The Sun, volume 292, number 107, Baltimore, Md., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A7, column 4:
Synonyms of popmaize
Forms of popmaize
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Origin of popmaize
From pop + maize, after popcorn.
Questions about popmaize
- What does popmaize mean?
- Popmaize means synonym of popcorn (“snack food”).
- How do you use popmaize in a sentence?
- Therefore it is necessary to name our popcorn “popmaize,” or, more euphoniously, “maizypop,” on that side.
- What part of speech is popmaize?
- Popmaize is a noun.
- What is the plural of popmaize?
- The plural of popmaize is popmaizes.
Words near popmaize in the dictionary
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