- 1玉米芯
A corncob is the hard middle of an ear of — the woody part the yellow seeds grow on. After you eat the corn, the cob is what is left. People throw it away, or sometimes dry it; an old-fashioned corncob pipe is a pipe made from that hard middle. This is an ordinary kitchen-and-farm word, mainly American. (British speakers more often say for the plant, but they still understand corncob.) Though actually, on the internet some people also use corncob as a joke verb, from a famous silly 2011 tweet about a man turning into a corncob. That slang is not the classroom meaning.
組成From corn + cob. Cob here is the hard core or rounded lump. The later internet-slang use grew out of a 2011 joke tweet, not from the farm meaning itself.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
corncobnoun/ˈkɔːn.kɒb/
- 1
The central cylindrical core of an ear of corn (maize) on which the kernels are attached in rows.
- London is like a shelled corncob on the Derby day, and there is not a clerk who could raise the money to hire a saddle with an old hack under it that can sit down on his office-stool the next day without wincing.
- Six years of persistent research at the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture, has resulted in establishing the fact that a number of interesting and useful by-products can be derived from the humble corncob.
- 2
informalA yokel.
corncobverb/ˈkɔːn.kɒb/
- 1
To disintegrate by the blades becoming severed from the axis
- 2
To defeat (someone) who then refuses to admit defeat.
- “Do you enjoy being corncobbed?”
- Trump had lost but was denying that this was the case. He had been corncobbed.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。