Etymology

cornplate

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The story

Compound of corn + plate; coined by Twitter user teyaミ☆ (@camascamshafts) in October 2022 in reference to a tweet about a scene from the film Encanto in which the character Dolores Madrigal briefly holds a plate of corn.

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