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corncob

noun
/ˈkɔːn.kɒb//ˈkɔɹn.kɑb/US

Etymology

From corn + cob. The Internet slang sense emerged from a 2011 absurdist tweet by Weird Twitter personality dril in which a man furiously denies being owned as he transforms into a corncob.

  1. inherited from cobbe — “male swan; gang leader; bully”
  2. compounded as corncob — “corn + cob”

Definitions

  1. The central cylindrical core of an ear of corn (maize) on which the kernels are attached…

    The central cylindrical core of an ear of corn (maize) on which the kernels are attached in rows.

    • 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.
    • 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.
    • He bit into a corncob, and Chisom watched him munch with his mouth open, his jaws working the corn like a mini grinding machine.

  2. A yokel.

  3. To disintegrate by the blades becoming severed from the axis

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To defeat (someone) who then refuses to admit defeat.

      • “Do you enjoy being corncobbed?”
      • Trump had lost but was denying that this was the case. He had been corncobbed.
      • Distracted cops, rude asteroids and the corncobbing of Andrew Koenig

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for corncob. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA