cornhole en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
- /ˈkɔɹnˌhoʊl/ (US)
Etymology
From corn + hole. (anus): From the old-fashioned practice of using dried corncobs instead of toilet paper in outdoor privies.
Meanings
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(UK, countable, dated, uncountable) A small room connected to a threshing floor.
The cornhole was a small, brick room opening off the threshing floor, about six or seven feet high, […] variously known as the cornhole or cornbin, and was designed for flail threshing, holding the grain until it was winnowed.
1969, J E C Peters, The Development of Farm Buildings in Western Lowland Staffordshire up to 1880, page 97:A small room may be found opening off the threshing floor on one side […] This is the cornhole, a mid-eighteenth-century development so far known only in Staffordshire and Suffolk, with a few in east Sussex.
1981, J E C Peters, Discovering Traditional Farm Buildings, page 17 with illustration:
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(US, uncountable) A game similar to beanbag toss, popular in Ohio, in which a bag filled with corn feed is thrown into a hole.
Cornhole, the indigenous pastime of Cincinnati's west side, is basically a democratized version of horseshoes.
2002 October, “Cornhole Game”, in Cincinnati Magazine, page 114:Cincinnatians, of course, know the true meaning of cornhole. The homegrown bag-toss game, which some suggest was even invented here, requires few tools: some beanbags, a box with a hole in it, and… well, that's it, really.
2009, F. Winternitz, S. Bellman, Insiders' Guide to Cincinnati, page 230:
- (countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar) The anus.
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