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 corny ['kɒ:ni]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 谷类的, 乡巴佬似的, 粗野的

[建] 角制的, 角(质)的


  1. The movie was so corny!
    这部电影表现得太夸张了!
  2. Don't repeat your corny jokes.
    不要再重复你那陈旧的笑话了。
  3. Fred's jokes are always so corny.
    弗雷德的笑话总是如此毫无新意。


corny
cornier, corniest
[ adj ]
dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality
<adj.all>
bromidic sermons


Corny \Cor"ny\ (k?r"n?), a. [L. cornu horn.]
Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.

Up stood the cornu reed. --Milton.


Corny \Corn"y\, a.
1. Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
[R.] ``The corny ear.'' --Prior.

2. Containing corn; tasting well of malt. [R.]

A draught of moist and corny ale. --Chaucer.

3. Tipsy. [Vulgar, Eng.] --Forby.

4. overly or simplistically sentimental. [informal]
[PJC]

5. trite or tiresome; too weak to be effective; -- said of
unsubtle attempts at humor; as, a corny joke; a corny
skit. [informal]
[PJC]

  1. Hokey, maybe, but this town's fame grew from tropical visions and corny promotional schemes.
  2. Radio Times is primarily an excuse to revive some of that Light Programme music, with biggish bands, jaunty and sentimental songs, corny and sometimes risque jokes.
  3. They never meet in a place where they could bang heads on doorsills, and they don't have to endure corny comments about "How's the weather up there?" The Moonrakers Club is for tall people who prefer not to raise the roof.
  4. It might have sounded corny if said by someone else, someplace else.
  5. "It's not like it's so corny or uncool," says Ben Marcus, senior editor of Surfer Magazine.
  6. I don't want to go away and not see my kid for 10 days," Bono said of his 4-month-old son, Chesare Elan. "That may sound corny or ridiculous, but I take him everywhere I go.
  7. Macchio didn't expect the following year's "The Karate Kid" to be a hit. "I thought it was too corny," he says. "Some of the scenes were just so sweet.
  8. Yet while Wednesday's inaugural speech may have sounded corny to British ears (it was corny), only crusty old cynics can fail to have envied the wide-eyed optimism in Washington.
  9. Yet while Wednesday's inaugural speech may have sounded corny to British ears (it was corny), only crusty old cynics can fail to have envied the wide-eyed optimism in Washington.
  10. This is not to say that Kansas won't be corny in August anymore.
  11. The president said he simply informed stewards, "Don't you dare bring me another sprig!" This may sound like a corny caper, but President Bush is giving broccoli the kohlrabi shoulder.
  12. Days of Hope falls between stools. Half of it is a rather straight play, wandering between the melodramatic and the corny, written by Renata Allen.
  13. Hiatt is from Indiana, and that means the heartland, with all the corny talk of family and the outdoors.
  14. Laurence Olivier directs Marilyn Monroe in a corny comedy.
  15. "I don't want to sound corny and say the future's in the Pacific Rim, but it's true," said Tanya Renee Hamlin, a 15-year-old freshman at Franklin High School in Seattle.
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