corny
Senso (Inglese)
- Boring and unoriginal.
- Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.
- (slang) Uncool, stupid, lame.
- (rare) Containing corn.
- (obsolete) Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
- (UK, obsolete, slang) Tipsy; drunk.
- (euphemistic) Horny (sexually aroused; experiencing sexual desire).
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Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˈkɔːni/
Etimologia (Inglese)
In summary
From Middle English corny, equivalent to corn + -y. In the "hackneyed" sense, from "corn catalogue jokes", reputedly low-quality jokes that were formerly printed in mail-order seed catalogues.
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