Meaning

3 senses

  1. A person or device that removes husks from corn.

    a worker who husks corn

  2. (capitalized, usually)A person who is a native or resident of the U.S. state of Nebraska.

    a native or resident of Nebraska

  3. (informal)A yokel.

Origin

From corn + husker.

From corn + husker.

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Forms

plural: cornhuskers
Singularcornhusker
Pluralcornhuskers

regular

Synonyms

25 synonyms
provincialC2cornshuckercorncobhayseedboggerbogtrotterboorbucoliccarlchurlcountry bumpkincountry cousinclodhopperdubbo
Close in meaning

Word family

9 related words
Relatedcornfieldcornflourcornhuskcornhuskingcornmealcorn oilcornshuckingcornstalkhusking bee

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
corneumcornfieldcornflowercornicecornichecornish

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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