Definition of Corny

Corn´y   Pronunciation: k?r´n?
a.1.Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.
Up stood the cornu reed.
- Milton.
1.Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
2.Containing corn; tasting well of malt.
A draught of moist and corny ale.
- Chaucer.
3.Tipsy.
4.overly or simplistically sentimental.
5.trite or tiresome; too weak to be effective; - said of unsubtle attempts at humor; as, a corny joke; a corny skit.


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