单词 | corn-pone |
释义 | corn-ponen. southern U.S. A kind of Indian corn bread made with milk and eggs; also a loaf of this bread. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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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