cornflaky

comparative more cornflaky · superlative most cornflaky

1. alternativeAlternative form of cornflakey.

   At home, breakfast was the best time of the day, while I was working. It was best because it wasn’t cornflaky or eggy or telly-adverty.

   1970, Walter Winward, chapter 14, in A Cat with Cream, London: Pan Books Ltd, published 1972, →ISBN, page 114

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   “Does anyone want a lift?” / “Now immediately?” Sunniva, spooning up cornflakes, objected, “I haven’t started breakfast yet.” / “You should get up earlier,” her father suggested, not for the first time. She put out her cornflaky tongue and he allowed her, “Perhaps I can hang on a few more minutes.”

   1969, Osmington Mills [pseudonym; Vivian Collin Brooks], Many a Slip, London: Geoffrey Bles Ltd, →ISBN, page 131

   It may be sticky and faintly cornflaky, but a kind of hard-knuckled, hairy-chested love DOES grow up among them, on a hundred plane flights, in the grind and sweat of the training camp.

   1969 December 29, Jim Klobuchar, “Jim Klobuchar”, in The Minneapolis Star, volume XCII, number 29, Minneapolis, Minn.: Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company, page 1 C

   Zenobia finished her mouthful of cornflakes and put down her spoon. […] Zenobia made a face at Dollie May and picked up her spoon again. […] “It was a very NOISY dream,” said Zenobia, in a cornflaky voice.

   1990, Vivian French, “Dollie May”, in Zenobia and Mouse, London: Walker Books, published 1997, →ISBN, page 7

   And this is where the dentist gives me more anaesthetic and I notice his hands smell a little like cornflakes – his gloves, they have this cornflaky scent – which is a detail that makes him seem credible and not simply a nightmare.

   2009, A[lison] L[ouise] Kennedy, What Becomes, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, pages 147–148