popcorn

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. (uncountable) A snack food made from corn or maize kernels popped by dry heating.
2. (countable) A serving of popcorn.
3. (countable, rare) A piece of popcorn.
4. (uncountable) A type of corn or maize with a hard outer hull that, along with the type of starch it contains, makes it suitable for popping.
5. (countable, uncountable) A kind of stitch similar to a bobble.
6. (attributive, countable, uncountable) A form of brainstorming in which participants call out their ideas immediately, instead of waiting for an assigned turn to speak.
7. (countable, humorous, uncountable) Entertainment for observers.
8. (countable, uncountable) A slow Belgian style of soul music popular in the early 1960s.
9. (countable, uncountable) A Romanian style of Europop popular in the late 2000s.

Verb

1. To stand or jump up quickly.
2. To pop repeatedly, like popcorn cooking.
3. (rare) To use the popcorn stitch.

Sinónimos

Zea mays everta

corn

🌽

cotton

explosive

firecracker

🧨

maize

pop corn

wheat

popped rice

popped corn

bomb

💣

popping corn

Traducións

Popcorn

🍿

popcorn

pipoca

🍿

pop-corn

🍿

Puffmais

🍿

palomitas de maíz

patlamış mısır

maïs éclaté

🍿

palomitas

maïs soufflé

🍿

popcorn

gepofte maïs

pof-maïs

popcorn

🍿

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈpɒp.kɔː(ɹ)n/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Short for popped corn. By surface analysis, pop + corn.