Usually means: Unoriginal, clichéd, overly sentimental humor.
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  1. corny: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. corny: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. corny: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. corny: Collins English Dictionary
  5. corny: Vocabulary.com
  6. Corny, corny: Wordnik
  7. corny: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. corny: Wiktionary
  9. corny: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. corny: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. corny: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. corny: Dictionary.com
  13. corny: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Corny: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. corny: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. corny: Rhymezone
  17. Corny: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. corny: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. corny: Free Dictionary
  20. corny: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Corny: The Word Detective
  22. corny: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Jazz Humor (No longer online)

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  1. corny: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See cornier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Boring and unoriginal.
adjective:  Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.
adjective:  (African-American Vernacular, slang) Uncool, stupid, lame.
adjective:  (rare) Containing corn.
adjective:  (obsolete) Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
adjective:  (obsolete, UK, slang) Tipsy; drunk.
adjective:  (euphemistic) Horny.
adjective:  (obsolete) Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.

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