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cornfest en · NOUN

Etymology

From corn + -fest.

Meanings

1. (US) A festival celebrating the harvesting of a corn crop.
   • Greater sandhill cranes take wing after a cornfest near the Rio Grande. 1982, America's Wildlife Sampler, page 138:
   • The cornfests later attracted as many as two hundred families, who came on the day the corn ripened to perfection. 1996, William P. Everts, Stockwell of Minneapolis: A Pioneer of Social and Political Conscience:
2. (US, slang) Something very corny.
   • That old movie was a total cornfest.

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