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corny

/kˈɔrni/ やや難 頻度 13001位

意味

  1. 陳腐な,古くさい;お涙ちょうだいの

語源

英語の原文(Wiktionary)

From Middle English corny, equivalent to corn (“a type of cereal or grain”) + -y. Piecewise doublet of grainy. In the "hackneyed" sense, from "corn catalogue jokes", reputedly low-quality jokes that were formerly printed in mail-order seed catalogues.

出典: Wiktionary「corny」(CC BY-SA 4.0)

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