cornhusker

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noun

A person or device that removes husks from corn.

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Meanings

cornhusker1

nouncornhusker (plural cornhuskers)

plural cornhuskers

  1. A person or device that removes husks from corn.

    Synonyms: cornshucker

  2. capitalizedusuallyA person who is a native or resident of the U.S. state of Nebraska.
  3. informalA yokel.

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

Cornhusker2

nounCornhusker (plural Cornhuskers)

plural Cornhuskers

  1. informalA native or resident of the American state of Nebraska.
  2. in pluralAny of a number of sports teams in Nebraska.

    Two weeks later, the Cornhuskers put on their road whites again and promptly got schooled by miserable Iowa State in Ames. After the shocking loss […]

    2006, Steve Smith, Forever Red: Confessions of a Cornhusker Football Fan, page 67

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA person or device that removes husks from corn.

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cornshucker

nounA yokel.

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More synonyms by meaning

nouna native or resident of Nebraska

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Nebraskan
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From corn + husker.

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Cite this entry
APA

cornhusker. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cornhusker

MLA

“cornhusker.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cornhusker. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cornhusker,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cornhusker.

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