popmaize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: popmaizes
Etymology: From pop + maize, after popcorn.
Senses: examples: text: It is called “maizypop” because the Londoners call what we term corn maize and refuse to call it anything else. Therefore it is necessary to name our popcorn “popmaize,” or, more euphoniously, “maizypop,” on that side. Under any other name it would be just as palatable, but might not be as easily advertised.
ref: [1905 May 2, “Another Invasion”, in Duluth News Tribune, Duluth, Minn.: Duluth News Tribune Co., →OCLC, page 4, column 2:
text: Mr. [Otis] Barrett does not appear to realize that the word “corn,” as used by Americans, has so ramified in phrases and compounds of everyday use that to abandon it would entail an appalling number of other changes in our speech. Thus, to be consistent, we should have to substitute “maizemeal” for “cornmeal,” “maizebread” for “cornbread,” “maizestarch” for “cornstarch,” and so on. No longer would Young America delight in the pink and the white varieties of “popcorn,” but in “popmaize”!
ref: [1913 April 26, “Misnamed Grains and Fruits”, in Scientific American: The Weekly Journal of Practical Information, volume CVIII, number 17, New York, N.Y.: Munn & Co., Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 374, columns 2–3:
text: POPMAIZE 10¢ A BAG / I’LL TAKE A BAG. / PLAIN OR BUTTERED? / BUTTERED. / THE COW AND CHURN ARE OVER THAT RISE.
ref: 1980–1981, Tom K. Ryan, Tumbleweeds Country, New York, N.Y.: Fawcett Gold Medal, published May 1984, →ISBN:
text: We are taken initially back to 1690 and an outdoor Puritan festivity presided over by portly Robert Greig, who as town crier announces: ‘And now, while we prepare for the extinction of the sorcerer father of this witch, there will be a short intermission . . .’ and a man comes on selling popmaize.
ref: 1982, Leslie Halliwell, “California French: I Married a Witch”, in Halliwell’s Hundred: A Nostalgic Choice of Films from the Golden Age, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →ISBN, page 145:
text: You can read about what we call corn under the heading Maize. Under that heading, the Britannica refers to popcorn as popcorn and not, as I expected, popmaize.
ref: [1983 March 22, Carl Pohlner, Jr., “Cosmic Levity”, in The Sun, volume 292, number 107, Baltimore, Md., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A7, column 4:
text: We turned to find Kyril grinning at us. “Shucks. . .” he teased; “chumps again, just when things getting engrossable. Was processed to grieve for absenting of popmaize and fellow random numerologist with whom to collate speculatings.[…]”
ref: 1984 November, David R[eay] Palmer, “Volume V: Revelation”, in Emergence, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published 1990, →ISBN, page 244:
text: The Adoni are fighting like nothing I’ve seen. Their speed is like that of a popmaize kernel exploding.
ref: 2015, Steven L. Peck, “Let the Mountains Tremble, for Adoniha Has Fallen”, in Wandering Realities: Mormonish Short Fiction, Provo, Ut.: Zarahemla Books, →ISBN, part I (Other Worlds):
text: Most maize consumed worldwide is fresh or immature (green) whole grain maize on the cob, popmaize (popcorn), and maize bread.
ref: 2016 December 15, “Maize (Corn)”, in Barbara Elvers, editor, Ullmann’s Food and Feed, 3 Volume Set, Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, published 19 June 2017, →ISBN, volume 2, part III […], page 557, column 2:
glosses: Synonym of popcorn (“snack food”).
synonyms: word: popcorn
extra: snack food
examples: text: Some teratological phenomena of ears of maize were investigated in diallel crosses of the following lines selfed 7, 8 years: 4- and 8-rowed flint maize (P4, P8), 12- and 18-rowed dent maize (P12, P18), and an approximately 40-rowed popmaize (P40), with fasciated spherical ears.
ref: 1959, Acta Biologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae: Supplementum, volume 3, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 35:
text: It seems that in the varieties of popmaize a certain amount of valuable germ-plasm can be found. In what way should we incorporate this material in our flint x dent programme of the early maturity groups?
ref: 1960, Proceedings of the […] Meeting, Montpellier: European Association for Research on Plant Breeding, Maize and Sorghum Section, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: To establish evolutionary and genetic relationships, the proteins of a hybrid field maize, an Illinois high-protein maize, and an Argentine popmaize were compared to those of two wild relatives, teosinte and Tripsacum.
ref: 1977, Abstracts on Tropical Agriculture, volume 3, Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute, Department of Agricultural Research, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 63, column 1:
text: Maize of different types (flour maize Z. mays var. amylacea, flint maize Z. mays var. indurata, dent maize Z. mays var. indentata, sweet maize Z. mays var. saccharata var. rugosa, popmaize Z. mays var. everta, waxy maize Z. mays var. ceratina, and amylo maize) and color (ranging from white to yellow, red, and purple) is grown (Singh and others 2011).
ref: 2014, “Maize”, in Weibiao Zhou, Y. H. Hui, editors, Bakery Products Science and Technology, 2nd edition, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, →ISBN, part 2 (Flours), section 6 […]:
glosses: Synonym of popcorn (“type of maize”).
synonyms: word: popcorn
extra: type of maize
Related terms: maizypop