corny
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality
Adj
- Boring and unoriginal.
- Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.
- Uncool, stupid, lame.
- Containing corn.
- Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
- Tipsy; drunk.
- Horny.
- Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English corny, equivalent to corn + -y. In the "hackneyed" sense, from "corn catalogue jokes", reputedly low-quality jokes that were formerly printed in mail-order seed catalogues.
Synonyms
a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored, besotted, besotten, bevvied, bibacious, bibulous, bingoed, binned, bladdered, blasted, blewed, blind, blind drunk, blitzed, blocked, blootered, blottoed, blue, bollocksed, bombed, boozy, bosky, bottled, Brahms, Brahms and Liszt, bromidic, budgy, bungalowed, bungfu, burlin', campy, canned, cheesy, clobbered, cocked, cockeyed, corned, crapulous, crocked, cunted, cup-shot, cup-shotten, cut, dead drunk, destroyed, disguised, drunk, drunk as a piper, drunked up, drunken, drunkish, ebriated, ebriose, elephant's, elephant's trunk, elevated, faced, fap, feeling no pain, fershnickered, flooey, floored, flush, flushed, flustered, fluted, fluthered, fou, four sheets in the wind, fresh, fried, frosted, fuckered up, fuckfaced, fuddled, full, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gassed, gattered, gee-eyed, gesuip, ginned, gished, glorious, groggified, groggy, half cut, half lit, half polluted, half seas over, hammered, have drink taken, have the sun in one's eyes, hazed, high, high as a Georgia pine, high as a kite, hog-whimpering, honkers, hooched up, hooted, hoovered, hosed, how came you so, impaired, in liquor, in one's altitudes, in one's cups, in the bag, in the drink, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, insober, insobrietous, inter pocula, jaked, jarred, juiced, juiced up, kaylied, kisky, kitsch, kitschy, lamped, langered, langers, larruped, lash, lashed, lathered, legless, liquored up, liquory, lit, loaded, looped, loopy, loose, lubed, lubed up, lubricated, lushed, mad with it, maggot, maggoted, mashed, maudlin, medicated, messed up, monged, mortal, mortalled, Mozart and Liszt, muddled, muggy, mullered, munted, muzzy, MWI, nappy, newted, nimptopsical, obfuscated, obliviated, off one's box, off one's head, off one's tits, oiled, oiled up, Oliver, Oliver Twist, on the ran tan, ossified, out of it, out of one's box, out of one's face, out of one's head, out of sight, overcome, overrefreshed, overtaken, paralytic, parlatic, pickled, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, platitudinal, platitudinous, ploughed, plowed, polluted, potshot, potted, pounded, primed, puggled, quisby, raddled, rat-arsed, ratted, razzled, ripe, ripped, rolling, rubbered, sauced, sauced up, scammered, schlocky, schloshed, schmaltzy, schnockered, screwed, scuttered, sewed up, shedded, shellacked, shicker, shickered, shitty, skunked, slammed, slarmied, slizzard, sloppy drunk, sloshed, smashed, snockered, snookered, snozzled, snuffy, soaken, sodden, sotted, sottish, souped-up, soused, sozzled, sozzly, spanceled, spannered, spiffed, splashed, spongy, sprung, squiffed, squiffy, steamboats, stewed, stinking, stinko, stoated, stoned, stonkered, stotious, strut, swacked, tacky, tanked, tanked up, temulent, temulentive, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, throwed, tight, tight as a tick, tilted, tippled, tipsy, tired and emotional, toasted, top-heavy, top-heavy with drink, toping, trashed, tuned, twatfaced, twisted, wastey, wazzed, wazzocked, well-oiled, wellied, wet, whittled, withered, wobbly, woozy, worse for liquor, worse for wear, wrecked, zoned, zonked, zooted, zorched, zotzed
Scrabble Score: 10
corny is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordcorny is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
corny is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary