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Corny vs Porny - What's the difference?

corny | porny |

As adjectives the difference between corny and porny

is that corny is insipid or trite or corny can be (obsolete) strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn while porny is (informal) pornographic.

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.

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    porny

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (informal) Pornographic.
  • * 2014 , Julie Bindel, All you lesbians behaving badly – are strip clubs what liberation is for?'' (in ''The Guardian online, 30 June 2014)
    • When I was a young lesbian feminist campaigning to overthrow patriarchy, what irked me most was the fact that some men would impose their own idiotic view of my sexuality on me, by asking if I would perform threesomes with them, or titillate them with a porny kissing display with my girlfriend.