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When a joke, a film, or a love line is corny, it is trying to be sweet or funny, but it feels old, simple, and a bit silly, because people have heard that kind of thing too many times. Dad jokes are often corny. A film that piles on slow music and easy tears can feel corny too.
When a joke, a film, or a love line is corny當一個笑話、電影或情話被說成corny, it is trying to be sweet or funny意思是它想要顯得溫馨或好笑, but it feels old, simple, and a bit silly但感覺很老套、很簡單、有點傻氣, because people have heard that kind of thing too many times因為這種東西大家已經聽過太多次了. Dad jokes are often corny老爸笑話（Dad jokes）常常很corny. A film that piles on slow music and easy tears一部堆滿慢節奏音樂和刻意催淚情節的電影 can feel corny too也會讓人覺得corny.
It is informal, and it is slightly rude in a gentle way: you are saying it is not clever. You can call a person corny, but more often you call the joke or the line corny.
It is informal這是個口語用字, and it is slightly rude in a gentle way語氣上帶有一點溫和的不客氣: you are saying it is not clever你在說這東西不聰明. You can call a person corny你可以說一個人corny, but more often you call the joke or the line corny但更常見的是說某個笑話或台詞corny.
Though actually, this meaning does not come from a corn on the foot, and it is not really about eating corn. It comes from corn the grain: cheap jokes used to be printed in mail-order seed catalogues, and people started calling that tired kind of joke corny.
Though actually不過, this meaning does not come from a corn on the foot這個意思跟腳上長的雞眼（corn）沒有關係, and it is not really about eating corn也不是真的在講吃玉米. It comes from corn the grain它來自穀物玉米（corn）: cheap jokes used to be printed in mail-order seed catalogues以前廉價的笑話常常印在郵購種子目錄上, and people started calling that tired kind of joke corny大家就開始把那種老掉牙的笑話叫做corny.
組成corn (“grain”) + -y. The “tired joke” sense comes from low-quality jokes once printed in mail-order seed catalogues (“corn catalogue jokes”).
同家族的字
- cornthe grain; corny is corn + -y, and the joke sense grew from seed-catalogue humour
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cornyadj詞源 1/ˈkɔːni/
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Boring and unoriginal.
- The duct tape and wire was a pretty corny solution.
- I mean if a boy's mother was sort of fat or corny-looking or something, and if somebody’s father was one of those guys that wear those suits with very big shoulders and corny black-and-white shoes, then old Haas would just shake hands with them and give them a phony smile and then he'd go talk, for maybe a half an hour, with somebody else's parents.
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Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.
- The movie was okay, but the love scene was really corny.
- He sent a bouquet of twelve red roses and a card: "Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, So are you." How corny is that?
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slangUncool, stupid, lame.
- Dreya shakes her head and rolls her eyes. "I'm going to bed. Y'all corny."
- “You and your silly bitch better give me fifty feet before both y'all corny asses get slam dunked in that pool.”
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rareContaining corn.
- Country Cornbread Muffins (page 290) / Marlene Says: The cool crunchy salad and slightly sweet corny muffins are perfect partners to the creamy, spicy black bean soup.
- There are cornbread recipes, and there are cornbread recipes. This one absolutely sings. Based on her daddy’s, and then her sister’s, beloved skillet-made bread, Maggie’s own recipe developed over time. It’s more about method, she says, but using stone-ground cornmeal and whole buttermilk are just as important. And a hot, seasoned cast-iron skillet is a must. What emerges is a rich “corny” bread, an almost melting soft interior encased in a ridiculously toothsome crust.
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obsoleteProducing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
- The corny ear.
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obsoleteslangTipsy; drunk.
- Yen day when aw was corney.
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Horny (sexually aroused; experiencing sexual desire).
cornyadj詞源 2/ˈkɔːni/
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Having or pertaining to corns (a type of callus).
- I had not long in open Street, / Been puniſhing my Corny Feet, […]
- In this fine Order they proceeded, / The Grave, the Wiſe, the Bullet-headed, […] / The Craſy, Gouty, and the Corny, […]
cornyadj詞源 3/ˈkɔːni/
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obsoleteHorny; strong, stiff or hard like horn; resembling horn.
- Up stood the cornie Reed.
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