corncob

plural corncobs · alternative corn-cob · alternative corn · alternative cob

1. The central cylindrical core of an ear of corn (maize) on which the kernels are attached in rows.

   He bit into a corncob, and Chisom watched him munch with his mouth open, his jaws working the corn like a mini grinding machine.

   2009, Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters Street, Random House,, →ISBN, page 32

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   London is like a shelled corncob on the Derby day, and there is not a clerk who could raise the money to hire a saddle with an old hack under it that can sit down on his office-stool the next day without wincing.

   1857–1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], chapter I, in The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, published 1858, →OCLC, page 23

   Six years of persistent research at the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture, has resulted in establishing the fact that a number of interesting and useful by-products can be derived from the humble corncob.

   1922, “Corncob Seen as Source of New Industry”, in Henry Haven Windsor, editor, Popular Mechanics, volume XXXVIII, page 765

2. informalA yokel.

   Synonyms: cornhusker, hayseed, bogger, bogtrotter, boor, bucolic, bydlo, culchie

present singular third person corncobs · participle present corncobbing · participle past corncobbed · past corncobbed · alternative corn-cob · alternative corn · alternative cob

1. intransitiveTo disintegrate by the blades becoming severed from the axis
2. InternetUStransitiveTo defeat (someone) who then refuses to admit defeat.

   “Do you enjoy being corncobbed?”

   2017 July 18, Jeremy Gordon, “CNN’s Most Cynical Pundit Got Mercilessly Owned in a Reddit AMA”, in SPIN

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   Trump had lost but was denying that this was the case. He had been corncobbed.

   2017 September 4, Amelia Tait, “The internet dictionary: what does it mean to be corncobbed?”, in The New Statesmen

   Distracted cops, rude asteroids and the corncobbing of Andrew Koenig

   2021, Daniel Hill, "The Big Mad: Missed Connections", Riverfront Times, 24 March 2021 - 30 March 2021, page 11