Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who behaves in a mawkish or unsophisticated manner.
- adj. Mawkish or unsophisticated; corny: a kid's cornball humor.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A ball made of popped corn, cemented with white of eggs, and sweetened with molasses or sugar.
Wiktionary
- n. US, informal An unsophisticated person.
- n. Something excessively corny.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a ball of popped corn stuck together with soft candy from molasses or sugar.
- n. a corn ball.
- n. informal a person who is corny; one who is overly sentimental.
- n. informal an unsophisticated person; a country bumpkin.
- adj. same as corny{5}.
Etymologies
- corn + ball (Wiktionary)
- From corn ball, a ball of popcorn and molasses. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“cornball'-'There's another one of Disney's saccharine things.”
“All I twittered, I said, 'cornball' - I wasn't talking about homie at all, "Brown explained.”
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“Like the time you teamed up with Texas right wing fanatic John "cornball" Cornyn on a proposal that would eliminate prepaid cell phones and hence protect the nation from the bad guys.”
“It's not my intent to leave you with some kind of cornball cliff hanger this week, but I have to because at this point, we just don't know.”
“B singer posted the word "cornball" on his Twitter. com blog as the rapper accepted his trophy for Best Male Hip-Hop Artist at the 23 November (09) ceremony.”
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“This is a mean-spirited mess, the kind of cornball By Connie Adair, National PostJanuary 30, 2010 3: 05 AM ARMOUR HEIGHTS 61B York Downs Dr. (Bathurst Street and Sheppard Avenue) Asking price: $1. 799-million Taxes: n/a Bedrooms: 5+1”
“This is a mean-spirited mess, the kind of cornball Travolta runs around sporting a bald head, a goatee, a hoop earring and an I-don't-give-a-damn disposition.”
“The song has enough edge to it to avoid the "cornball" trap that singers of his ilk shun, the breakdown section full of solid ad libs and some impressive energy.”
“The R&B singer posted the word "cornball" on his Twitter. com blog as the rapper accepted his trophy for Best Male Hip-Hop Artist at the 23 November (09) ceremony.”
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“Chris Brown has reportedly dismissed speculation that he called Jay-Z a "cornball".”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cornball’.
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Open List: The World of Corn
Corn-related words and phrases. This versatile crop is so important to cultures and economies - from most basic indigenous foodstuff and animal feed to source of biopolymer and biofuel.
seed corn, field corn, flint corn, sweet corn, biofuel, biopolymer, corn starch, modified corn starch, cornstarch, cornflour, polylactic acid, citric acid and 390 more...
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confectionary
lollies sweets
caramel gets 48 hits
chocolate gets 112 hits
nonpareil 83 hitstaffy, alcorza, chew, chocolate, confectionary, lolly, sweets, blackball, bonbon, brickle, bubblegum, cachou and 137 more...
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Gapeseeds and Muckworms - Compound De...
A list of compound derogatory names such as gapeseed, muckworm and lickspittle. Your one-word contributions to this list are welcome.
See sionnach's list derogatory terms I should use ...gapeseed, muckworm, lickspittle, makeweight, bootlicker, backscratcher, apple-polisher, backslapper, brownnoser, rakeshame, yesman, freeloader and 293 more...
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funny & derogatory
WARNING: VERY EXPLICIT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
funny derogatory names, quotes, phrases.
( open list, randomness, ad hom, ad hominem )
also see:
buttfucking quitter, dirty sanchez, donkey punch, falcon punch, assbadger, unicorn turd, assclown, fudgenut, quackery, friggin homo, buttmuncher, jackwagon and 272 more... -
1906 Railway Cipher Code
Terms from the Standard Cipher Code of the American Railway Association, 1906. The terms were shorthand for common phrases used in telegraphic communications between station agents and Railway Asso...
abdominal, abetting, abiology, ablative, abnormal, abominate, aboveboard, abrasive, absinth, abstinent, accursed, acetate and 212 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cornball.
hernesheir In the abrupt jargon of railroad telegraphy, cornball stood for the phrase "will not be confirmed". --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906. Jan 21, 2013
reesetee And here I was thinking "Silent Cornballs." Jun 9, 2011
yarb O cornball ye faithful? Jun 8, 2011
sionnach Read this in a font with bad kerning and it sounds like the start of a well-known Christmas carol. Jun 8, 2011
yarb Ridiculous. Every potential wordie list, etc. Jun 8, 2011
ruzuzu Done. Jun 8, 2011
yarb Can't believe hernesheir or ruzuzu hasn't included this on some panoptical corn-themed list. Jun 8, 2011