corny

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: corn=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

corny, a. [L. cornu horn.].

 Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.  [1913 Webster]
"Up stood the cornu reed."  [1913 Webster]

corny, a. 

•  Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.  Prior.  [1913 Webster]
•  Containing corn; tasting well of malt.  [1913 Webster]

  "A draught of moist and corny ale."  [1913 Webster]
•  Tipsy.  Forby.  [1913 Webster]
•  overly or simplistically sentimental.  [PJC]
•  trite or tiresome; too weak to be effective; -- said of unsubtle attempts at humor; as, a corny joke; a corny skit.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

corny, adj. (cornier, corniest)
1 colloq. a trite. b feebly humorous. c sentimental. d old-fashioned; out of date.
2 of or abounding in corn.

Derivative

cornily adv. corniness n.

Etymology

CORN(1) + -Y(1): sense 1 f. sense 'rustic'

THESAURUS

corny

back-number, banal, bewhiskered, bromidic, cliched, common, commonplace, cut-and-dried, fade, familiar, fusty, hackney, hackneyed, moth-eaten, musty, old hat, platitudinous, set, shopworn, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, truistic, unoriginal, warmed-over, well-known, well-worn, worn, worn thin