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▪ I. corny, a.1|ˈkɔːnɪ|
[f. corn n.1 + -y1.]
1. Of or pertaining to corn.
a. when growing or cut.
1580C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxxiv. xvi, The summers corny crowne. 1595Markham Sir R. Grinvile ii, The earth..Boasting his cornie mantle stird with aire. 1625Lisle Du Bartas 14 (T.) [The rain] downward gan to rave, And drown'd the corny ranks. 1667Milton P.L. vii. 321 Up stood the cornie Reed Embattel'd in her field. 1805Poet. Reg. 179 Yon turkies perching on the corny pile.
b. as grain or meal.
1855Singleton Virgil II. 166 [They] wheaten cakes Along the grass place underneath the feast..And with wild fruits the corny board enrich. 1881Times 13 May 4/1 The corny fragrance of meal and flour.
c. colloq. Of such a type as appeals to country-folk; rustic or unsophisticated; tiresomely or ridiculously old-fashioned or sentimental; hackneyed, trite; inferior. Cf. corn n.1 3 c, corniness.
1932Melody Maker June 511/1 The ‘bounce’ of the brass section..has degenerated into a definitely ‘corny’ and staccato style of playing. 1935,1937[see corn-fed c]. 1937M. Allingham Dancers in Mourning ii. 31 She..began to play a melody which..had been popular in the early post-war days... ‘Corny old stuff,’ said Mercer. 1944Brahms & Simon Titania has a Mother iii. 26 He wondered what corny gag old Abey had thought up this time. 1946[see corn n.1 3 c]. 1951Auden Nones (1952) 43 Grown insolent and fat On cheesy literature And corny dramas. 1957Listener 20 June 993/2 The Walker Art Gallery houses some of the corniest Victorian and Edwardian masterpieces. 1958E. H. Clements Uncommon Cold ii. 44 My affections are, to use a corny phrase, ‘otherwise engaged’.
†2. Of ale: ? Tasting strong of the corn or malt. Obs. or dial.
c1386Chaucer Pard. Pream. 29 A draughte of moyste and corny ale. Ibid. Prol. & T. 128 Now haue I dronke a draughte of corny ale. 15..Christmas Carols (Percy Soc.) 47 A draught Of cornie aile, Nappy and staile. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Corny, tasting well of malt. ‘The ale is corny’.
3. a. Producing corn; abounding in (growing) corn.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Pais de blairie, a corney country. 1825–79Jamieson s.v., ‘The last was a corny year’. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xvii. iv, Seize Saxony..and in that rich corny Country form Magazines.
b. Abounding in grains of corn.
1687Dryden Hind & P. iii. 959 By their high Crops, and Corny Gizzards known. 1718Prior Solomon i. 154 The ant..bringing home the corny ear. 1826Blackw. Mag. XIX. 250 A cloud of pigeons often descends among the corny chaff.
4. Intoxicated, tipsy; = corned. dial.
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Corny, tipsey. 1863Robson Bards of Tyne 25 Yen day when aw was corney.
5. Comb., as corny-faced (see quot.).
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Corny-fac'd, a very Red or Blue pimpled Phiz.
▪ II. † ˈcorny, a.2 Obs. rare.
[f. F. corne or L. cornu horn + -y1: cf. L. corneus horny.]
Hard as horn, horny.
(First quot. is doubtful.)
15..Pathway to Health fol. 53 (N.) Also Ipocras saith, that a woman being conceived with a man-child is ruddy, and her right side is corny about, but if she bee conceived with a maid child, she is blacke, and her left pap is corny about. 1755Johnson, Corny..strong or hard like horn; horny.
▪ III. corny, a.3|ˈkɔːnɪ|
[f. corn n.2 + -y1.]
Having corns on the feet; pertaining to corns.
1707E. Ward Hud. Rediv. (1715) I. iv, I had not long, in open Street, Been punishing my Corny Feet. Ibid. II. vi, The Crasy, Gouty, and the Corny. 1821Blackw. Mag. IX. 567 Offending the corny sensibilities of their friends. |