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单词 corn-pone
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corn-ponen.

Etymology: See pone n.2 1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcorn-pone.
southern U.S.
A kind of Indian corn bread made with milk and eggs; also a loaf of this bread.
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1860 in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2)
1886 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 8 Dec. 2/4 A Southern Society has been formed in New York, and its members are confident in being as happy over the corn-pone and the hog-jowl as the New-Englanders over doughnuts and hard cider.
1890 Cent. Mag. Aug. 615/1 His comrade [produced] several large corn-pones.

Draft additions August 2004

depreciative. A person who or thing which exhibits characteristics (stereotypically) associated with the rural southern United States. Chiefly attributive.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [adjective] > peasant or rustic
churlisha1000
upland14..
rustical?a1475
ruric1488
rusticate?a1505
rural1513
upalands1535
clownish1570
rustic1582
clownical1614
clown-likea1640
swainish1642
nut-brown1648
countrified1653
Corydonical1656
sylvatic1661
villatic1671
farmerly1689
peasant1702
soil-bound1814
farmerish1835
farmery1862
corn-pone1919
swede-bashing1936
1919 Variety 4 Apr. 16 His dog-gone corn pone town back home.
1939 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 2 July 7/2 It is proved, by way of a convenient trunk full of letters, that behind his cornpone ancestry there is an illustrious forebear.
1964 Times 24 Apr. 11/2 The earthiness of the thirty-sixth President is perhaps an asset, the drawl, the cornpone humour, the frequent quotations from the lesser scriptures and the modest presence of country cousins.
1985 J. Burchill Sex & Sensibility (1992) 102 Jackie Kennedy..calling the tenants from whom she expropriated the White House ‘Colonel Cornpone and his little pork chop’.
2000 S. King On Writing 182 It's hard to say what's wrong with Lovecraft's dialogue, other than the obvious: it's stilted and lifeless, brimming with country cornpone (‘someplace whar things ain't as they is here’).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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