Corny vs Corky - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between corny and corky

is that corny is insipid or trite while corky is of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.

an injury caused by a blow ("corking").

; in the "hackneyed" sense, from "corn catalogue jokes", reputedly low-quality jokes that were formerly printed in mail-order seed catalogues.

(er)

Insipid or trite.

The duct tape and wire were a pretty corny solution.

Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.

The movie was okay, but the love scene was really corny .

He sent a bouquet of twelve red roses and a card: "Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, And so are you." How corny is that!

(obsolete) Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.

* Prior

The corny ear.

Containing corn; tasting well of malt.

* Chaucer

A draught of moist and corny ale.

(obsolete, UK, slang) tipsy; drunk

(Forby)

* (hackneyed or excessively sentimental) kitsch, kitschy, cheesy

(etyl) (lena) .

(en adjective)

(obsolete) Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.

* Milton

Up stood the corny reed.

(er)

Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.

This one smells a bit corky ; get me another bottle.

Consisting of, or like, cork; dry; shrivelled.

* Shakespeare

Bind fast his corky arms.

* (like cork) suberose, suberous (in botany)

(corkies)

(AU, slang) An injury caused by a blow ("corking").