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corny | threshed |

As an adjective corny

is insipid or trite.

As a verb threshed is

past tense of thresh.

corny

English

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

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

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) (lena) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.
  • * Milton
    • Up stood the corny reed.

    Anagrams

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    threshed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (thresh)

    • thresh

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • (agriculture) To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery.
  • (literary) To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.

    • Quotations

    * 2009 , Stuart Heritage], [http://www.hecklerspray.com/ Hecklerspray] , Friday the 22nd of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “[http://www.hecklerspray.com/jon-kate-latest-people-you-dont-know-do-crap-you-dont-care-about/200934378.php Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About” *: You know all this kerfuffle about Jordan and Peter Andre, and how you don’t know if they’re really splitting up or it’s just an act, and how you can’t be bothered to find out because wasting even a fraction of your brainpower on those bright orange clueless dicksplats would make you just as bad as them and you’d feel duty-bound to fling yourself under an industrial threshing machine as penance? You do? Good.

    Synonyms

    * thrash

    Derived terms

    * thresher * thresherman * threshold