corncob
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːn.kɒb/ / /ˈkɔɹn.kɒb/ / /ˈkɔɹn.kɑb/
noun
Etymology: From corn + cob. The Internet slang sense emerged from a 2011 absurdist tweet by Weird Twitter personality dril in which a man furiously denies being owned as he transforms into a corncob.
- The central cylindrical core of an ear of corn (maize) on which the kernels are attached in rows.
“London is like a shelled corncob on the Derby day, and there is not a clerk who could raise the money to hire a saddle with an old hack under it that can sit down on his office-stool the next day without wincing.”
“Six years of persistent research at the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture, has resulted in establishing the fact that a number of interesting and useful by-products can be derived from the humble corncob.”
- A yokel.
verb
Etymology: From corn + cob. The Internet slang sense emerged from a 2011 absurdist tweet by Weird Twitter personality dril in which a man furiously denies being owned as he transforms into a corncob.
- To disintegrate by the blades becoming severed from the axis
- To defeat (someone) who then refuses to admit defeat.
““Do you enjoy being corncobbed?””
“Trump had lost but was denying that this was the case. He had been corncobbed.”