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ˈcorn-fed, a.
a. Fed on grain; fig. well-fed.
1576Gascoigne Steele Gl. (Arb.) 78 Than cornfed beasts whose bellie is their God. 1598Deloney Jacke Newb. viii, 104 My folkes are so corne fed that we have much adoe to please them in their diet. 1638Penkethman Artach. I iij b, An Ox stalled or Corne fed, 24s. a grasse fed Ox 16s.
b. spec. Fed on maize. By extension: well-fed; plump, stout. Chiefly U.S.
1787in T. F. DeVoe Market Bk. (1862) 181 Corn-fed pork and peach brandy. 1796J. Barlow Hasty-Pudding iii, Brown corn-fed nymphs, and strong hard-handed beaus. 1812‘D. Knickerbocker’ Hist. N.Y. (ed. 2) iii. vi. 182 They grew up a..hardy race of..strapping corn-fed wenches. 1862‘Artemus Ward’ His Bk. (1865) 154 The corn fed gals of Ohio and Injianny. 1889Farmer Dict. Amer. 170/2 A woman is popularly said to be corn-fed when stout and plump—an allusion to the nourishing qualities of this kind of food. 1948Chicago Tribune 20 June (Grafic Mag.) 8/5 He looks like a corn-fed boy.
c. Banal, provincial, ‘commercial’; = corny a.1 1 c. Chiefly Jazz slang.
1929Melody Maker Mar. 285/1 This peculiar..style of melody, the appeal of which lies in the fact that it is purposely so utterly corn-fed. 1935Peabody (Mass.) Bull. Dec. 42/2 Corny—Derived from cornfed, meaning [music] played in country style, out of date, hill-billy, or in a style of pre-1925. 1937L. Feather in Radio Times 2 Apr. 10/3 Corn, old-fashioned style; out-of-date idiom and technique in jazz. Hence corny or cornfed applied to musicians and their style. 1954Archit. Rev. CXVI. 303 Either way this is a rather negative formulation; part of the literary impedimenta of the modern movement, useful to the critic defending the Bauhaus to a cornfed audience of Ruskinians. |