Usually means: Unoriginal, cheesy, and overly sentimental.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. cornball: Merriam-Webster
  2. cornball: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cornball: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cornball: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Cornball, cornball: Wordnik
  6. cornball: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. cornball: Wiktionary
  8. cornball: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cornball: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. cornball: Dictionary.com
  11. Cornball: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. cornball: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  13. cornball: FreeDictionary.org
  14. cornball: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. cornball: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Jazz Humor (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cornball, cornball, cornball: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cornball: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A ball of popped corn stuck together with soft candy from molasses or sugar.
noun:  (US, informal) An unsophisticated person.
noun:  (US, informal) Something or someone excessively corny.
noun:  (US, African-American Vernacular, informal) A corny person; an uncool, stupid, or lame person.
adjective:  (informal) Naive, corny.

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