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cornily Definition


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corny
adj cornier, corniest
    colloq:
    1. Said of a joke: old and stale.
      Thesaurus: banal, clichéd, hackneyed, trite, commonplace, stale, feeble, platitudinous; Antonym: original, fresh, new.
    2. Embarrassingly old-fashioned or sentimental.
    3. Relating to or abounding in corn1.
    4. Relating to corn2.
Derivative: cornily
adverb
    Derivative: corniness
    noun
      Etymology: 20c in senses 1 and 2, 16c in sense 3, all from corn1; 18c in sense 4, from corn2.



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