Etymology
Origin of cornfed
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at corn 1, fed 1
Example Sentences
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As a portrait of cornfed evil, it’s chilling.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2023
As “Shucked” reveals, a musical seeded with farm humor finds it hard to stop with the cornfed puns.
From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2023
They serve Nebraska-raised cornfed beef, aged in-house for at least 28 days.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 10, 2019
Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney were a defiantly odd couple, a literary mandarin and a cornfed girl from the Midwest who didn’t care much for books.
From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2010
One may ridicule this cornfed, tepid idealism, but it is none the less the raw material out of which great national purposes are formed.
From American World Policies by Weyl, Walter E.
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