corn-fedadj.

1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas sig. H.ij^v Than cornfed beasts, whose bellie is their God.

a1600 T. Deloney Pleasant Hist. Iohn Winchcomb (1619) viii. sig. Kij My folkes are so corne fed, that wee haue much adoe to please them in their dyet.

1638 J. Penkethman Artachthos sig. Iiij^v An Ox stalled or Corne fed, 24s. a grasse fed Ox 16s.

1787 in T. F. DeVoe Market Bk. (1862) 181 Corn-fed pork and peach brandy.

1796 J. Barlow Hasty-pudding iii, in N.Y. Mag. Jan. 47 Brown corn-fed nymphs, and strong hard-handed beaux.

1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. iii. vi. 174 They grew up a..hardy race of..strapping corn-fed wenches.

1835 R. M. Bird Hawks of Hawk-hollow II. xix. 223 While you was lying snorting here like a corn-fed pig, we was knocking the tories on the head at the yard-gate.

1862 C. F. Browne Artemus Ward his Bk. 213 The corn fed gals of Ohio and Injianny.

1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms 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.

1948 Chicago Tribune 20 June (Grafic Mag.) 8/5 He looks like a corn-fed boy.

1929 Melody 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.

1935 Peabody (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 Dec. 42/2 Corny—Derived from cornfed, meaning [music] played in country style, out of date, hill-billy, or in a style of pre-1925.

1937 L. Feather in Radio Times 2 Apr. 10/3 Corn, old-fashioned style; out-of-date idiom and technique in jazz.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.

1954 Archit. Rev. 116 303 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.