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corncob en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈkɔɹn.kɒb/ rhotic
• (US) audio
• /ˈkɔɹn.kɑb/ (US)
• kôrnʹ-kŏb (US)
• /ˈkɔːn.kɒb/ non-rhotic

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.

Meanings

1. 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. 1857–1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], chapter I, in The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, published 1858, →OCLC, page 23:
   • 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. 1922, “Corncob Seen as Source of New Industry”, in Henry Haven Windsor, editor, Popular Mechanics, volume XXXVIII, page 765:
   • He bit into a corncob, and Chisom watched him munch with his mouth open, his jaws working the corn like a mini grinding machine. 2009, Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters Street, Random House,, →ISBN, page 32:
2. (informal) A yokel.

Forms

Deriveds

corncob engine · corncob pipe

Synonyms

hayseed · bogtrotter · country bumpkin · cornhusker · clodhopper · honyock · bucolic · hog-rubber · yokel · hick · carl · joskin · churl · dubbo · hob · hobnail · corncob · country cousin · hayseed · provincial · rube · boor · lob · hunk · cornhusker · promdi · culchie · bydlo · woolly back · bogger · rustic

Translations (63)

fi lapakko (core of an ear of corn) · it pannocchia (core of an ear of corn) · ru сте́ржень кукуру́зного поча́тка (core of an ear of corn) · gl carozo (core of an ear of corn) · yua bakal (core of an ear of corn) · de Maisspindel (core of an ear of corn) · pl kaczan (core of an ear of corn) · es carozo (core of an ear of corn) · da majskolbe (core of an ear of corn) · is kólfur (core of an ear of corn) · ka სიმინდის ტარო (core of an ear of corn) · es mazorca (core of an ear of corn) · qu q'urunta (core of an ear of corn) · id tongkol jagung (core of an ear of corn) · es zuro (core of an ear of corn) · km បណ្ដូលពោត (core of an ear of corn) · fr rafle (core of an ear of corn) · yua xi'im xikin (core of an ear of corn) · es coronta (core of an ear of corn) · ki mũcakwe (core of an ear of corn) · hu kukoricacső (core of an ear of corn) · ar كُوز ذُرَة (core of an ear of corn) · pt maçaroca (core of an ear of corn) · sh klȋp (core of an ear of corn) · sq kalli (core of an ear of corn) · es panocha (core of an ear of corn) · es marlo (core of an ear of corn) · pt sabugo (core of an ear of corn) · ca panotxa (core of an ear of corn) · tr mısır koçanı (core of an ear of corn) · sq kacarrum (core of an ear of corn) · sv majskolv (core of an ear of corn) · tr koçan (core of an ear of corn) · th ซังข้าวโพด (core of an ear of corn) · no maiskolbe (core of an ear of corn) · sh кли̑п (core of an ear of corn) · ur چھلی (core of an ear of corn) · es olote (Méx.) (core of an ear of corn) · ga dias (core of an ear of corn) · tl busal (core of an ear of corn) · bg кочан (core of an ear of corn) · bni lisangu (core of an ear of corn) · sq misërishte (core of an ear of corn) · es tusa (core of an ear of corn) · ro știulete (core of an ear of corn) · gl cañoto (core of an ear of corn) · pl kolba kukurydzy (core of an ear of corn) · it tutolo (core of an ear of corn) · ar كُوز الذُرَة (core of an ear of corn) · mk кочан (core of an ear of corn) · tl busil (core of an ear of corn) · pt espiga (core of an ear of corn) · is maískólfur (core of an ear of corn) · twf kʼȍʼóna (core of an ear of corn) · nap sponza (core of an ear of corn) · sq koçan (core of an ear of corn) · hu kukoricacsutka (core of an ear of corn) · he קֶלַח (core of an ear of corn) · chc kus suk (core of an ear of corn) · sq rrumb (core of an ear of corn) · gl carolo (core of an ear of corn) · ja トウモロコシの芯 (core of an ear of corn) · ka ტარო (core of an ear of corn)

corncob en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈkɔɹn.kɒb/ rhotic
• (US) audio
• /ˈkɔɹn.kɑb/ (US)
• kôrnʹ-kŏb (US)
• /ˈkɔːn.kɒb/ non-rhotic

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.

Meanings

1. (intransitive, of turbines and rotor blades) To disintegrate by the blades becoming severed from the axis
2. (Internet, US, transitive) To defeat (someone) who then refuses to admit defeat.
   • Trump had lost but was denying that this was the case. He had been corncobbed. 2017 September 4, Amelia Tait, “The internet dictionary: what does it mean to be corncobbed?”, in The New Statesmen:
   • Distracted cops, rude asteroids and the corncobbing of Andrew Koenig 2021, Daniel Hill, "The Big Mad: Missed Connections", Riverfront Times, 24 March 2021 - 30 March 2021, page 11
   • “Do you enjoy being corncobbed?” 2017 July 18, Jeremy Gordon, “CNN’s Most Cynical Pundit Got Mercilessly Owned in a Reddit AMA”, in SPIN:

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