Hypertext Webster Gateway: "corny"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Corny \Corn"y\, a.
1. Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
[R.] ``The corny ear.'' --Prior.
2. Containing corn; tasting well of malt. [R.]
A draught of moist and corny ale. --Chaucer.
3. Tipsy. [Vulgar, Eng.] --Forby.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Corny \Cor"ny\ (k?r"n?), a. [L. cornu horn.]
Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.
Up stood the cornu reed. --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
corny
adj : dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or
originality; "bromidic sermons" [syn: {bromidic}, {platitudinal},
{platitudinous}]
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