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corn-flakey en · ADJ

Etymology

From corn flake + -y.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of cornflakey.
   alt of cornflakey
   • Today’s captains of the fast-food industry are no more contented simply to make billions of bucks than their corn-flakey predecessors were. 2001, L[ester] Neil Smith, “A Rant for All Seasons”, in Lever Action: Essays on Liberty, Las Vegas, Nev.: Mountain Media, →ISBN, page 341:
   • Opt Out / conventional corn-flakey cereal, since it likely contains GM corn 2009, Robyn O’Brien with Rachel Kranz, The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick—and What We Can Do About It, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 253:
   • They had spied the telltale silver pan of leftover funeral casserole on the kitchen table and were salivating at the thought of its ground beefy-cheesy-corn-flakey goodness. […] I put wax paper over mounds of corn flakes and crushed them with a thick encyclopedia, and, as we sprinkled the crunchy topping over the casserole, we sang along to “Edelweiss.” 2017, Kate Fuglei, “Funeral Casserole”, in Claire LaZebnik, Ann Brown, editors, SisterWriterEaters, Santa Monica, Calif.: Griffith Moon, →ISBN, pages 138–139:
   • Lacebark pine is more mysterious, flaking dark bark revealing patches of chalky white. But enough prose — you must come see tree barks, ghostly beech and checkered tupelo, corn-flakey wild cherry, striated franklinia, and dozens more. 2000 December 13, Al Cook, “Early winter offers beauty to visitors at Dawes”, in The Advocate, Newark, Oh., page 4D, column 3:

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