Corny

Definition: Corny

Corny

Adjective

1. Dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality; "bromidic sermons".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Corny

But you can call me Corny for short (Quest for Camelot; writing credit: Vera Chapman; Kirk De Micco)

Chili Con Corny (1972)

Corny (1967)

Chili Corn Corny (1965)

Corny Concerto (1962)

A Corny Concerto (1943)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• "I say, I say!" Great Britain's best corny jokes and the debatable wit and wisdom of Michael Watts (reference)

• Corny Country (The Silly-Wacky-Goofy-Flaky Series) (reference)

• Corny Iowa City/County Trivia! (Carole Marsh Iowa Books) (reference)

• Corny the Pigeon Saves Christmas (reference)

• Schwarzkollm : ein Dorf mitten in der Lausitz = Corny Cho±mc (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Corny Casanovas (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Corny Country (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "corny": corny joke ♦ corny pun. Additional references.

Albanian

i rëndomtë (banal, base, coarse, common, commonplace, copybook, everyday, habitual, hackneyed, homely, mundane, ordinary, plain, platitudinous, prose, prosy, second rate, substandard, trite, vulgar), i mërzitshëm (annoying, boring, bothersome, dead alive, depressing, dissatisfactory, dreary, dry, dull, fatiguing, fierce, pesky, plaguesome, pragmatical, slow, tedious, tiresome, weariful, wearisome, weary), banal (banal, blue, broad, common or garden, copybook, hackneyed, platitudinous, salacious). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مبتذل (banal, common, commonplace, conventional, everyday, fade, fading, hack, hackneyed, outworn, overused, pedestrian, platitudinous, plebeian, prosaic, prose, routine, slipshod, stale, stereotyped, tacky, threadbare, tired, trite, trivial, vapid, vulgar, well worn, workaday, worn out), ‏حنطي. (various references)

Bulgarian 

старомоден (antiquated, archaic, dowdy, fossil, fusty, hunker, moldy, obsolete, old fashioned, old hat, old time, out of date, outmoded, passe, primitive, quaint, square-toed, traditional), сантиментален (mushy, namby-pamby, sappy, sentimental, soupy), житен (cereal, grain, graminaceous, gramineous, wheat, wheaten), плодороден (benign, benignant, fat, fecund, fertile, fruitful, generous, hearty, plenteous, productive, prolific, rank, rich). (various references)

Chinese 

谷类. (various references)

Czech

všední (commonplace, everyday, flat, ordinary, shallow, trite, trivial), uhozený (cock eyed), otřepaný (hackneyed, jaded, outworn, overworked, platitudinous, stale, threadbare, trite, well worn), otřelý (hackneyed, overworked), omšelý (dingy), banální (banal, hackneyed, trite). (various references)

Farsi 

چرند (Baloney, Bilk, Crap, Hokum, Inane, Jive, Ludicrous, Nonsensical, Rigmarole, Shenanigan, Silly, Stuff, Trashy, Unmeaning, Windy), غله ای , شاخی (Cornuted). (various references)

French

de blé, banal (commonplace). (various references)

German

getreidereich. (various references)

Greek 

κακήσ ποιότητοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

יבלולי (calloused, horny handed, warty). (various references)

Hungarian

elcsépelt (banal, commonplace, hackneyed, overworked, rinky-dink, stale, threadbare, trite, trivial, well-trodden). (various references)

Italian

trito (chopped, hackneyed, minced, stale, timeworn, trite, worn out), ricco di grano, di grano, banale (banal, common, commonplace, dismal, hackneyed, mundane, platitudinous, prosy, trite, trivial). (various references)

Norwegian

banal (hackneyed). (various references)

Pig Latin

ornycay.(various references)

Portuguese

cheio de trigo (cereal), caloso (cereal, horny), tolo (addle-brained, addled, cuddy, daft, dull, finical, fool, foolish, gaby, goat, gowk, gull, hard-hearted, inept, insane, insensate, looby, loony, mad, madman, naïve, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, pigeon, pumpkin-head, screwy, silly, simpleton, softhead, softy, spoon, spoony, stock, stupe, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, vacuous, wacky, witless), sentimental (emotional, lyric, lyrical, maudlin, milk-and-water, novelettish, sentimental, slobbery, soulful, spoony), inferior (bad, below, blanket, bottom, brutish, catchpenny, cheap, coarse, common, currish, dependant, dependent, ground floor, hereinafter, inelaborate, inferior, less, lesser, low, mean, menial, minor, nether, poor, subordinate, trashy, under, undermost, unequal, wishy-washy), granuloso (grainy, granular, lumpy). (various references)

Romanian

cu bãtãturi (horny), mãnos (rich), de grâne, de cereale (cereal), bogat în grâne. (various references)

Russian 

банальный (banal, commonplace, hack, hackneyed, obvious, platitudinarian, platitudinous, prosy, quotidian, trite). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

otrcan (commonplace, hackneyed, outworn, shabby, stale, tame, threadbare, trite, well worn), banalan (banal, camp, commonplace, crude, hackneyed, trite). (various references)

Spanish

cursi (affected, camp, flashy, genteel, loud, posh, pretentious, showy, tacky, tawdry), viejo como un anciano (fuddy-duddy, hoary, musty). (various references)

Swedish

banal (banal, commonplace, dismal, flat, hack, hackneyed, humdrum, insipid, novelettish, platitudinarian, threadbare, trite). (various references)

Turkish

tanecikli (granular, granulated, granulous), tahıl bakımından zengin, tahıl (cereal, cereals, corn, grain), nasırlı (callous, hard), modası geçmiş (antiquated, archaic, demode, demoded, fogeyish, fogyish, fusty, moss-grown, obsolete, old fashioned, old hat, old world, out, out of date, out of fashion, outdated, outmoded, outworn, passe, passee, queen anne is dead, superannuated, unfashionable, worm-eaten), mısır (corn, Egypt, indian corn, maize, sweet corn), bayat (cut and dried, dated, detrited, not fresh, old, stale, threadbare, trite, twice-told, worn, worn out), çok kullanılan. (various references)

Ukrainian

старомодний (ancient, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, frumpish, old fashioned, oldfangled, out of date, out of fashion, outmoded, primitive, square-toed, victorian, vintage), хлібородний, хлібний (cereal), мозолястий (callous, horny), зерновий (cereal). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sướt mướt (lachrymose, mawkish, misty-eyed, mushy, sloppy). (various references)

Misspellings

"Corny" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acorny, borny, carni, carny, Caryn, Cernyw, chorny, cirn, coarn, cocny, cogni, coiny, cokny, colny, congy, Conmy, Conray, Conrie, coony, coreny, corey, corhn, corinii, cormy, Corna, corney, corni, corno, cornt, cornu, cornye, coro, corpy, Corty, Coryn, Cownie, crocy, croney, cronie, cronyn, croxy, cuny, Korniev, Kornik, korny, koruny, kory, krony, morny, onry, orni, orny, Shorney. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: crony.

-1 letter: cony, corn, cory.

-2 letters: con, cor, coy, cry, nor, orc, roc, yon.

-3 letters: no, on, or, oy, yo.

+1 letter: crayon.

+2 letters: acronym, canonry, carryon, cornily, country, crayons, cryogen, cryonic, synchro, tyronic.

+3 letters: acrimony, acronyms, baryonic, cannonry, carbonyl, carryons, cartoony, caryotin, ceremony, chronaxy, clownery, condylar, contrary, conveyer, conveyor, cornetcy, coronary, corybant, cousinry, crayoned, cronyism, cryogens, cryogeny, cryonics, cryotron, cynosure, deaconry, dormancy, enactory, falconry, hydronic, incisory, monarchy, mordancy, necropsy, nomarchy, normalcy, octonary, reconvey, scroungy, synchros.