corncob
See also: corn-cob
English
Alternative forms
- corn-cob
- corn cob
Etymology
corn + cob. The Internet slang sense emerged from a 2011 tweet by Weird Twitter personality dril in which a man furiously denies being owned as he transforms into a corncob.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- (rhotic) IPA(key): /ˈkɔɹnkɒb/
- (non-rhotic) IPA(key): /ˈkɔːnkɒb/
- (US) enPR: kôrnʹkŏb, IPA(key): [ˈkɔɹnkɑb]
- Hyphenation: corn‧cob
Noun
corncob (plural corncobs)
- The central cylindrical core of an ear of corn (maize) on which the kernels are attached in rows.
- 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, The “Breakfast-Table” Series, George Routledge and Sons (1882), page 23:
- 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.
- 1922, ed. Henry Haven Windsor, "Corncob Seen as Source of New Industry", Popular Mechanics, volume XXXVIII, page 765:
- 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.
- 2009, Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters Street, Random House,, →ISBN, page 32:
- He bit into a corncob, and Chisom watched him munch with his mouth open, his jaws working the corn like a mini grinding machine.
- 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, The “Breakfast-Table” Series, George Routledge and Sons (1882), page 23:
Derived terms
- corncob engine
- corncob pipe
Translations
core of an ear of corn
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Verb
corncob (third-person singular simple present corncobs, present participle corncobbing, simple past and past participle corncobbed)
- (intransitive, of turbines and rotor blades) To disintegrate by the blades becoming severed from the axis
- (transitive, US, Internet slang) To defeat (someone) who then refuses to admit defeat.
- 2017, Jeremy Gordon, "CNN’s Most Cynical Pundit Got Mercilessly Owned in a Reddit AMA", SPIN, 18 July 2017:
- “Do you enjoy being corncobbed?”
- 2017, Amelia Tait, "The internet dictionary: what does it mean to be corncobbed?", The New Statesmen, 4 September 2017:
- Trump had lost but was denying that this was the case. He had been corncobbed.
- 2021, Daniel Hill, "The Big Mad: Missed Connections", Riverfront Times, 24 March 2021 - 30 March 2021, page 11:
- Distracted cops, rude asteroids and the corncobbing of Andrew Koenig
- 2017, Jeremy Gordon, "CNN’s Most Cynical Pundit Got Mercilessly Owned in a Reddit AMA", SPIN, 18 July 2017:
References
- Kate Knibbs, "Welcome to Corn Cob Season", The Ringer, 28 August 2017
- Amelia Tait, "The internet dictionary: what does it mean to be corncobbed?", The New Statesmen, 4 September 2017