Corn

Etymology 1
corn: <- <-, neuter participle of. Cognate with Dutch koren:, German Korn:, Danish/Norwegian/Swedish korn:; see also Russian зерно:, Czech zrno:, Latin granum:, Lithuanian žirnis: and English grain:.

Noun

 * 1)  A grain or seed.
 * 2)  The grain obtained from a plant, especially of cereal crops.
 * 3)  A cereal plant grown for its grain.  This usually refers to the main such plant grown in the region, such as oats in parts of Scotland and Ireland, wheat or barley in England and Wales, and maize or sweetcorn in the Americas.
 * 4) * 1886 August 7, Eleanor M. Thomas, letter to Herman Melville:
 * Mamma lets me have corn for dinner if I eat my meat.
 * Mamma lets me have corn for dinner if I eat my meat.

Derived terms

 * corn bunting
 * cornflour
 * cornmeal
 * cornstarch
 * peppercorn
 * sweetcorn

Verb

 * 1) 🇺🇸 To granulate - form a substance into grains.
 * 2) 🇺🇸 To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef
 * 3) 🇺🇸 To provide with corn (typically maize) for feed. e.g. Corn the horses.

Etymology 2
From corn: (modern French corne:.

Noun

 * 1) A callus on the foot.

Etymology 3
This use was first used in 1932, as corny, something appealing to country folk.

Noun

 * 1) 🇺🇸 Something (e.g. acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion (Adjective: corny).
 * 2) * 1975, Tschirlie, Backpacker magazine,
 * He had a sharp wit, true enough, but also a good, healthy mountaineer's love of pure corn, the slapstick stuff, the in-jokes that get funnier with every repetition and never amuse anybody who wasn't there.
 * 1) * 1986, Linda Martin and Kerry Segrave, Women in Comedy‎,
 * There were lots of jokes on the show and they were pure corn, but the audience didn't mind.
 * 1) * 2007, Bob L. Cox, Fiddlin' Charlie Bowman: an East Tennessee old-time music pioneer and his musical family,
 * The bulk of this humor was pure corn, but as hillbilly material it was meant to be that way.

Adjectives
military; starving; unsickled; sprinkled bounteous; strengthening; bladed; scanty lusty; golden; bruised; dry;  pungent waving; tall; ripening; thriving; rustling.

Verbs
blast—; consume—; feed on—; furrow— gather—; grind—;  harvest—;  husk— market—; parch—; pluck—; prepare— reap—; sack—; scatter—; shell—; shock— sift—;sow—; stack—;  store—; strip— thrash—; tread out—; wither—; wreathe in—;   —blossoms;   —ripens;   —rustles; —shoots up; —sustains; —sways; —waves.

Thesaurus
Joe Miller, aftergrass, anhydrate, bamboo, banality, barley, benign tumor, bird seed, blast-freeze, boil, bran, brine, bromide, bump, bunion, callosity, callus, cancer, cane, carbuncle, carcinoma, cat food, cereal, cereal plant, chestnut, chicken feed, chop, cliche, commonplace, commonplace expression, cure, cyst, dehydrate, desiccate, dilatation, dilation, distension, dog food, dry, dry-cure, dry-salt, eatage, edema, embalm, ensilage, evaporate, excrescence, familiar tune, farinaceous plant, feed, fodder, fog, forage, forage grass, freeze, freeze-dry, fume, fungosity, fungus, furuncle, grain, graminaceous plant, grass, growth, hackneyed saying, hay, intumescence, irradiate, jerk, joke with whiskers, kipper, lawn grass, lieu commun, locus communis, lump, malignant growth, marinade, marinate, mash, meal, metastatic tumor, mole, morbid growth, mummify, neoplasm, nevus, nonmalignant tumor, oats, old joke, old saw, old song, old story, old turkey, old wheeze, ornamental grass, outgrowth, pasturage, pasture, pet food, pickle, pimple, platitude, pock, preservatize, prosaicism, prosaism, prose, proud flesh, provender, pustule, quick-freeze, reed, refrigerate, reiteration, retold story, rising, salt, sarcoma, scratch, scratch feed, season, sebaceous cyst, silage, slops, smoke, smoke-cure, stereotyped saying, straw, stuff, swell, swelling, swill, swollenness, trite joke, trite saying, triticism, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, twice-told tale, verruca, warmed-over cabbage, wart, wen, wheat

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: (egiptac’oren)
 * Basque:
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: (carevica)
 * Catalan: blat de moro, dacsa, moresc, panís, panís de l'Índia
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, Turkse tarwe
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: (simindi)
 * German:
 * Austrian: Kukuruz
 * Hungarian:
 * Isthmus Zapotec: xubaʼ
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:, ja (tōmorokoshi)
 * Kirundi: ikigori
 * Korean:


 * Latin: frumentum
 * Latvian: kukurūza
 * Macedonian: пченка
 * Maltese: qamħ
 * Nahuatl: elotl
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: milh, milhòc
 * Papiamentu:
 * Polish:, kukurydza zwyczajna
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: (kukurúza)
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Sotho: poone
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: muhindi
 * Swedish:
 * Taos: ȉa’áne, p’ə̀o’óne (ripe), kuyúna (sacred)
 * Telugu: మొక్కజొన్న (mokkajonna)
 * Turkish:, misir
 * Ukrainian: кукурудза
 * Vietnamese: ; ngô


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: зърно
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Ido: cerealo


 * Japanese: ja
 * Macedonian:
 * Maltese: qamħerrun
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovak:

Noun

 * Bulgarian: мазол
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: tyúkszem
 * Italian:, durone


 * Macedonian: плускавец, набиеница,  мозолка
 * Maltese: kallu
 * Manx:
 * Russian:
 * Turkish: nasır

Noun

 * 1) horn instrument used to create sound

Noun

 * 1) horn (as a musical instrument)

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1) corn, a grain or seed
 * 2) * Hie wæron benumene ægðer ge ðæs ceapes ge ðæs cornes: they were deprived both of cattle and of corn. (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle)
 * 3) a cornlike pimple, a corn on the foot

Etymology 1
From cornus.

Noun



 * 1) European Cornel, scientific name Cornus mas
 * 2) rafter

Etymology 2
From cornu:.

Noun

 * 1) horn

Related terms

 * cornut

Noun

 * 1) oats
 * 2)  crops
 * 1)  crops

Verb

 * 1) to feed (a horse) with oats or grain

Noun

 * 1) horn