corn-flakey

A form of cornflakey — Resembling, characteristic of, or involving corn flakes.

Meanings

adjectivecorn-flakey (comparative more corn-flakey, superlative most corn-flakey)

comparative more corn-flakey · superlative most corn-flakey

  1. alternativeAlternative form of cornflakey.

    Opt Out / conventional corn-flakey cereal, since it likely contains GM corn

    2009, Robyn O’Brien with Rachel Kranz, The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick—and What We Can Do About It, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 253
    3 more examples

    Lacebark pine is more mysterious, flaking dark bark revealing patches of chalky white. But enough prose — you must come see tree barks, ghostly beech and checkered tupelo, corn-flakey wild cherry, striated franklinia, and dozens more.

    2000 December 13, Al Cook, “Early winter offers beauty to visitors at Dawes”, in The Advocate, Newark, Oh., page 4D, column 3

    Today’s captains of the fast-food industry are no more contented simply to make billions of bucks than their corn-flakey predecessors were.

    2001, L[ester] Neil Smith, “A Rant for All Seasons”, in Lever Action: Essays on Liberty, Las Vegas, Nev.: Mountain Media, →ISBN, page 341

    They had spied the telltale silver pan of leftover funeral casserole on the kitchen table and were salivating at the thought of its ground beefy-cheesy-corn-flakey goodness. […] I put wax paper over mounds of corn flakes and crushed them with a thick encyclopedia, and, as we sprinkled the crunchy topping over the casserole, we sang along to “Edelweiss.”

    2017, Kate Fuglei, “Funeral Casserole”, in Claire LaZebnik, Ann Brown, editors, SisterWriterEaters, Santa Monica, Calif.: Griffith Moon, →ISBN, pages 138–139

Origin

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