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corny

Date: Jan 10 2002

Quote

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“OK, my name is Pink, let me be really corny and dye my hair pink.”
- Recording artist Pink, talking about her hair color.

Definition

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silly; not funny

2. Use - Learn how the slang is used.

Corny is often used to describe someone or something that wants to be cool, but isn’t. For example, if your friend got a tattoo on his arm and thought it looked really cool, but you thought it looked stupid, you could say that the tattoo looked corny.
Corny is a playful word. It’s not serious, and it’s doubtful that anyone would take offense to it.
A similar word to corny is “cheesy.” The difference between the two is that something that is cheesy is trying very hard to be cool. A cheesy person is someone who thinks he is the coolest person in the world, when in truth he’s a dork.

Examples

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“Adam Sandler’s movies are really corny.”

“My brother tries to talk with a British accent, but he sounds corny because he’s not very good at it.”

“I bought these corny shoes yesterday for Halloween.”

Winners

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If it’s not interesting, not surprising; it’s corny.
by Yoshi (Yokohama, Japan)
Corny means old-fashioned, outdated. My furniture was from 40s, so very corny, I had to buy new one. I like my old-fashioned wardrobe, even it’s corny, I don’t want to change.
by Ada (Prague, Czech Republic)
I think corny means dull and tiresome, or like acting stupid and funny.
by Diona (Philippines)
Corny means having a style different from current standard. A corny person can be very simple but old-fashioned.
by Meigo (Taiwan)

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