| 单词 | corny |
| 释义 | corny (once / 4683 pages) adj If your Uncle Marvin has a habit of telling corny jokes, they probably make you groan every single time. Corny describes something that's either worn out and tiresome or overly sentimental — and sometimes both. It can be hard to talk about something emotional without becoming corny. Try describing love at first sight without becoming trite or stickily sentimental and you'll know first-hand how easily you can find yourself sounding corny. For years corny simply meant "full of corn," or "tasting of malt." Sometime in the 1930s it became popular slang meaning "appealing to country folk," who were also described at the time as corn-fed, because of their supposed connection to farms. WORD FAMILYcorny: cornier, corniest, cornily+/corn: corned, corning, corns, corny USAGE EXAMPLESThe show mixed corny jokes and novelty songs with performances by some of the biggest names in country music. New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) Not to be corny, but that thing in the air? New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) I just didn’t want it to be cheesy or corny. Time(Dec 21, 2016) adj dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality Syn bromidic, platitudinal, platitudinous unoriginal not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual |
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