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Vinony

corn

verb

No English definition recorded for this entry.

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noun

  1. cutaneous disease
  2. grain-growing plant
  3. grain from maize
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːn/ / /ˈkɔɹn/ / /ˈkoːn/

name

Etymology: * As an English surname, from the nouns crane, corn, and quern. * As a German surname, spelling variant of Korn, meaning "grain."

  1. A surname.
  2. A town in Oklahoma.

noun

Etymology: Rhyming euphemism for porn, and with influence from the emoji substitute 🌽.

  1. pornography; porn

verb

Etymology: Inherited from Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-West Germanic *korn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain; worn-down”), from *ǵerh₂- (“grow old, mature”). Cognate with Dutch koren, German Low German Koorn, German Korn, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish korn; see also Albanian grurë, Russian зерно́ (zernó), Czech zrno, Latin grānum and Lithuanian žirnis. Doublet of grain, gram, granum, and grao. The sense maize (Zea mays) is an ellipsis of Indian corn that developed in 18th century North America.

  1. To granulate; to form (a substance) into grains.

    “to corn gunpowder”

  2. To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef.
  3. To provide (an animal) with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed.

    “Corn the horses.”

  4. To render intoxicated.

    “ale strong enough to corn one”

  5. To shoot up with bullets as by a shotgun (corn).

    “Anywhere, anytime, I'll get him, if he's in love; I'll corn his wedding He backed his wetter, I backed my wetter but who really held that wetting?”