Etymology
Origin of cornfed
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at corn 1, fed 1
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
As “Shucked” reveals, a musical seeded with farm humor finds it hard to stop with the cornfed puns.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023
Or perhaps Connor, the so-called “first pancake”; Tom, the cornfed basic from Hockeytown; or Roman, Slime Puppy extraordinaire?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
They serve Nebraska-raised cornfed beef, aged in-house for at least 28 days.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 10, 2019
Gill, who was the defensive line coach at Michigan State at the time, was expecting Shilique Calhoun to be the next elite pass-rusher to join the cornfed tankers in the trenches of the Big Ten.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2015
When the poet declared that men do not die for love, the doctors had not yet learned that a cornfed kiss that cracks like a dynamite gun may be equally dangerous.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by William Cowper Brann
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
