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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Trite, dated, melodramatic, or mawkishly sentimental.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of the nature of corn; furnished with grains of corn.
  2. Producing corn; abounding with corn.
  3. Containing corn.
  4. Produced from corn; tasting strongly of corn or malt.
  5. Intoxicated; tipsy; corned.
  6. Horny; corneous; strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Insipid or trite.
  2. adj. Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.
  3. adj. obsolete Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
  4. adj. Containing corn; tasting well of malt.
  5. adj. obsolete, UK, slang tipsy; drunk

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.
  2. adj. rare Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
  3. adj. rare Containing corn; tasting well of malt.
  4. adj. Vulgar, Eng. Tipsy.
  5. adj. informal overly or simplistically sentimental.
  6. adj. informal trite or tiresome; too weak to be effective; -- said of unsubtle attempts at humor.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality

Etymologies

  1. corn +‎ -y (from "corn catalogue jokes", reputedly low-quality jokes that were at a time commonly printed in mail order seed catalogues) (Wiktionary)
  2. From corn1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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