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ˈcorn-pone Southern U.S.
[See pone.]
A kind of Indian corn bread made with milk and eggs; also a loaf of this bread.
1860in Bartlett Dict. Amer. 1886Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 8 Dec. 2/4 A Southern Society has been formed in New York, and its members are confident in being as happy over the corn-pone and the hog-jowl as the New-Englanders over doughnuts and hard cider. 1890Century Mag. Aug. 615/1 His comrade [produced] several large corn-pones.
▸ depreciative. A person who or thing which exhibits characteristics (stereotypically) associated with the rural southern United States. Chiefly attrib.
1919Variety 4 Apr. 16 His dog-gone corn pone town back home. 1939N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 2 July 7/2 It is proved, by way of a convenient trunk full of letters, that behind his cornpone ancestry there is an illustrious forebear. 1964Times 24 Apr. 11/2 The earthiness of the thirty-sixth President is perhaps an asset, the drawl, the cornpone humour, the frequent quotations from the lesser scriptures and the modest presence of country cousins. 1985J. Burchill Sex & Sensibility (1992) 102 Jackie Kennedy..calling the tenants from whom she expropriated the White House ‘Colonel Cornpone and his little pork chop’. 2000S. King On Writing 182 It's hard to say what's wrong with Lovecraft's dialogue, other than the obvious: it's stilted and lifeless, brimming with country cornpone (‘someplace whar things ain't as they is here’). |