corn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːn/
ipa: /kɔɹn/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: corns
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-West Germanic *korn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain; worn-down”), from *ǵerh₂- (“grow old, mature”).
Cognate with Dutch koren, German Low German Koorn, German Korn, Danish korn, Norwegian Bokmål korn, Norwegian Nynorsk korn and Swedish korn; see also Albanian grurë, Russian зерно́ (zernó), Czech zrno, Latin grānum and Lithuanian žirnis. Doublet of grain, gram, granum, and grao.
The sense maize (Zea mays) is an ellipsis of Indian corn that developed in 18th century North America.
Senses: examples: text: And hee ſaid, Beholde, I haue heard that there is corne in Egypt: get you downe thither and buy for vs from thence, that we may liue, and not die.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 42:2, column 2:
text: Among the divinities that dwelt on Mount Olympus, none was more friendly to the husbandman than Demeter, goddess of corn.
ref: 1847, John Mason Neale, Stories from heathen mythology and Greek history, page 115:
text: Moreover, however much the individual manufacturer might give the rein to his old lust for gain, the spokesmen and political leaders of the manufacturing class ordered a change of front and of speech towards the workpeople. They had entered upon the contest for the repeal of the Corn Laws, and needed the workers to help them to victory. They promised, therefore, not only a double-sized loaf of bread, but the enactment of the Ten Hours' Bill in the Free Trade millenium.
ref: 1887, Karl Marx, “The Working Day”, in Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, transl., edited by Frederick [i.e., Friedrich] Engels, Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production: Translated from the Third German Edition, volume I, London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, & Co., […], →OCLC, part III (The Production of Absolute Surplus-value), section 6 (The Struggle for the Normal Working Day. […]), page 267:
text: [T]here exists arguments in favour of regarding one of the eatable varieties of "leaven," Machmetzeth, as the beer of the Hebrews. The mention of beer by the Egyptians is frequent; under the name of Hek, two intoxicating beverages are included. The components of these beers, individually, are not known: one was made from corn, the other was a medicated or sweetened beer, due to the addition of honey, or system of brewing.
ref: 1887, James Death, The Beer of the Bible: One of the Hitherto Unknown Leavens of Exodus. […], page 12:
text: I found that we had nearly a hundred bushels of corn, including wheat, maize, and barley, to add to our store.
ref: 1909, Johann David Wyss (Susannah Mary Paull, translator), The Swiss Family Robinson, page 462:
qualifier: but not Australia or New Zealand
glosses: Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
examples: text: The planting or sowing of maize, exclusively called corn, was just accomplished on the Town Hill, when I reached it.
ref: 1809, Edward Augustus Kendall, Travels Through the Northern Parts of the United States:
text: Corn was the staff of life for many Indian people before contact, and it became the staff of life for many European colonists. Corn was higher in nutrition than most other grain crops. John Lawson, who travelled in South Carolina and into the interior Indian country in 1701, was one of the many colonists who sang the praises of corn.
ref: 1998 February 18, Colin G. Calloway, New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America, JHU Press, →ISBN, pages 51–52:
synonyms: sweet corn
Indian corn
glosses: Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
examples: text: He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley.
text: Verely, verely, I ſay vnto you, Except a corne of wheat fall into the ground, and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 12:24, column 2:
glosses: A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
examples: text: The least corn of sand is not so small to the whole earth, as man is to the heaven:[…]
ref: 1612–1626, Joseph Hall, “[Contemplations upon the Principal Passages in the Holy Story. Book I.] Of Man.”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. […], volume I (Contemplations), London: […] C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Williams and Smith, […], published 1808, →OCLC, part IV (Contemplations on the Old Testament), page 8:
text: corns of powder
ref: 1852, Thomas Antisell, Hand-book of the Useful Arts:
glosses: A small, hard particle.
synonyms: corn snow
glosses: A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
examples: text: R.I.P Scumpy ah you did say Popcaan
And if a boy diss we clap corn.
ref: 2014 June 9, Andrae Hugh Sutherland respectively Popcaan of Popcaan, “Where We Come From” (track 13), in Where We Come From:
text: We got spinners and dotties
We got .40s and MACs
We got nuff live corn
[…] See the four-door pausing
Skengs out, everyone runnin
But the corn just slapped and floored em
50 shots in that mop
ref: 2016 September 9, Liquez respectively Dimzy of 67, “Jump Out Gang” (track 7), in Let’s Lurk:
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Bullets, ammunition, charge and discharge of firearms.
examples: text: You know dem have wedge while we have corn. Say Cockney say be first, my son! We just say Gwan!
ref: 1984, Smiley Culture, Cockney Translator (song title):
glosses: Money.
Derived terms: acknowledge the corn
Asian corn borer
baby corn
barleycorn
blue corn
breadcorn
broomcorn
broom corn
calico corn
California corn flakes
candy corn
can of corn
carry corn
cord grass
cornball
cornbind
cornbird
corn blotch leafminer
corn borer
corn bunting
corncake
corn cheese
corn chip
corn circle
corncob
corn-cob
corncockle
corn cockle
corn-cracker
corn cracker
corncrake
corn-crake
corn crake
corn crib
corncutter
corn-dodger
corn dog
corn doll
corn dolly
corn earworm
corn exchange
corn-factor
corn-fed
cornfed
cornfest
cornfield
corn-flag
cornflake
corn flake
corn flakes
cornfloor
cornflour
cornflower
corn gallon
Corngate
corn-hog ratio
cornhole
corn house
cornhusk
cornhusker
cornhusking
cornify
cornish
corn juice
cornkister
cornlage
cornland
corn law
cornless
cornlike
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cornloft
corn marigold
cornmarket
cornmeal
cornmill
corn mint
cornmonger
corn moon
corn moth
corn mother
corn mummy
corn oil
corn on the cob
corn oyster
corn parsley
corn-pit
corn planthopper
corn planting moon
corn plaster
cornplate
corn pone
cornpone
corn-pone
corn poppy
corn pudding
corn rice
corn roast
corn roaster
corn rocket
corn rye bread
cornsack
corn salad
cornsheller
cornshuck
cornshucking
corn silk
cornsilk
corn smut
corn snake
corn snow
corn squeezing
cornstalk
cornstarch
corn starch
cornstick
cornstone
corn sugar
corn sweat
corn syrup
corn thistle
corn truffle
corn whiskey
cornworm
cream corn
creamed corn
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dent corn
earn one's corn
eat one's seed corn
eat the seed corn
eggcorn
European corn borer
field corn
flint corn
flour corn
frankencorn
grain corn
green corn
grind the corn
Guinea corn
high-fructose corn syrup
high fructose corn syrup
hog-corn ratio
jackass corn
kaffir corn
kafir corn
kernel corn
kettle corn
multicorn
negro corn
off-corn
peppercorn
pib-corn
pod corn
pole corn
popcorn
popped corn
pudding corn
puffcorn
quadricorn
reindeer corn
sandcorn
sea corn
seed corn
seedcorn
shoepeg corn
skillet corn bread
sour corn
squirrel corn
sugar corn
sweet corn
sweetcorn
Turkey corn
turkey corn
wardcorn
waxy corn
what does that have to do with the price of corn
whitecorn
white corn
Related terms: sense: types of grain
word: barley
sense: types of grain
word: cereal
sense: types of grain
word: grain
sense: types of grain
word: maize
sense: types of grain
word: oats
sense: types of grain
word: rye
sense: types of grain
word: wheat