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单词 corny
释义
cornycorn‧y /ˈkɔːni $ ˈkɔːrni/ adjective Word Origin
WORD ORIGINcorny
Origin:
1900-2000 corny ‘typical of the country’ (1900-2000), from corn
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a corny Hollywood romance
  • It may sound corny, but I enjoy helping people.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • And for once the finale - everyone coming together to sing Dylan's Chimes of Freedom - seemed not corny but exactly right.
  • As if in a corny fiction, it is in the gents that we first identify each other and introduce ourselves.
  • For instance, she notes that sunsets may now look corny too much like photographs of sunsets.
  • Hart is an amiable and enthusiastic guide, if a little corny at times.
  • He says a lot of corny retro jive that used to go over big in the 1970s.
  • It may sound corny, but the simple fact is, it works.
too silly and repeated too often to be funny or interesting:  corny jokes I know it sounds corny, but I dream about her every night.
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