cobette

plural cobettes

1. A small portion of corn on the cob, less than the whole ear.

   I'll cook clams, lobsters—hot-and-spicy red potatoes and corn cobettes.

   2002, Patricia Hickman, Sandpebbles, page 194

   2 more examples

   Processing budgets were completed for these seven frozen products: strawberries, strawberry jam, sliced green beans, cut corn, corn (cobettes), sliced apples, and apple puree.

   2006, Progress Report, volume 15, page 54

   Sitting late one night again in a burger bar, where I munched into some fries and a corn cobette, I mentioned my vegetarianism to Joshua and how I just felt a deep-rooted belief it was morally wrong to kill animals for us to eat […]

   2011, Rehana Incognito, Bodycage, page 304