adjective · rare

corny

corny · cornier · corniest

банальний, заяложений, засентиментальний

банальный, сентиментальный, слащавый

kitschig, abgedroschen, schmalzig

Boring and unoriginalBoring and unoriginal.

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UK/ˈkɔːni/US/ˈkɔɹni/

» That song is corny.

Ця пісня заїжджена.

Meaning

9 senses

Boring and unoriginal.
The duct tape and wire was a pretty corny solution.
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?
abgedroschen, kitschig, schmalzig
бана́льныйbanálʹnyj, сентиментальныйsentimentalʹnyj, слащавыйslaščavyj
бана́льнийbanálʹnyj, заяло́женийzajalóženyj, засентимента́льнийzasentymentálʹnyj
(slang)Uncool, stupid, lame.
(rare)Containing corn.
(euphemistic)Horny (sexually aroused; experiencing sexual desire).
Having or pertaining to corns (a type of callus).
(obsolete)Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
(UK, obsolete, slang)Tipsy; drunk.
(obsolete)Horny; strong, stiff or hard like horn; resembling horn.

More definitions

dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality

Examples

10 sentences

That song is corny.
Ця пісня заїжджена. — deniko
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Tom told another one of his corny jokes.
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This may sound corny, but love is the answer.
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It may sound corny, but that's how it happened.
ruЭто может показаться банально, но так оно и случилось. — odexed
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As corny as it sounds, I love my husband more each day.
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Translations

7 languages

Українська

By meaning 2

insipid or trite:

excessively sentimental:

Русский

By meaning 2

insipid or trite:

excessively sentimental:

Deutsch

By meaning 2

insipid or trite:

excessively sentimental:

Origin

From Middle English corny, equivalent to corn (“a type of cereal or grain”) + -y. Piecewis

From Middle English corny, equivalent to corn (“a type of cereal or grain”) + -y. Piecewise doublet of grainy. In the "hackneyed" sense, from "corn catalogue jokes", reputedly low-quality jokes that were formerly printed in mail-order seed catalogues.

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