| 单词 | corn-ball |
| 释义 | > as lemmascorn-ball corn-ball n. (a) (U.S.), a sweetmeat made of popped corn or maize; (b) slang (originally U.S.), a ‘corny’ person (see corny adj.1); also attributive or as adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > tedious or dull person > trite, banal, or conventional bromide1906 square1944 corn-ball1952 Pooter1957 pedestrian1969 the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > trite or banal quotidian1430 trite1548 protrite1604 obvious1617 unbravea1681 prosaical1699 tritical1709 prosaic1729 hack1759 unstrikinga1774 commonplace1801 prosy1837 banal1840 mundane1850 unsensational1854 bromidic1906 corn-fed1929 corn-ball1970 1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. ix. 64 Nanny remained near the dutch oven to keep us supplied with red-hot pones, or corn-balls. 1873 E. S. Phelps Trotty's Wedding Tour 3 They were eating a corn ball at recess. 1952 R. C. Ruark in H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (1960) 124/2 Eisenhower on no account can be called a cornball. 1952 B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. xxv. 350 (Gloss.) Corny, stale, insipid..and so too ‘corn’ (noun), ‘cornfed’, ‘cornball’, and ‘off the cob’. 1962 Movie June 28/1 An expatriate cornball like Jerry Court. 1962 Melody Maker 7 July 11 Parker hired a cornball duo at one of the Sunday Reisner-Parker sessions in order to get rid of the audience. 1970 Daily Tel. 1 May (Colour Suppl.) 19 Things today have to be carefully said, because we live in that kind of world where the truisms sound cornball. < as lemmas |
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