cornpatch

noun

Etymology

From corn + patch.

  1. derived from pieche
  2. inherited from *plakjō — “spot, stain
  3. inherited from *plakkju
  4. inherited from *plæċċ
  5. inherited from pacche
  6. compounded as cornpatch — “corn + patch

Definitions

  1. A patch of corn.

    • She believed it was time to show the boy, to let him see with his own eyes, the difference between living free in the land of the buffalo and being trapped in the mud-log huts and cornpatches of the Mandan.
    • He paused by the edge of the lifeless-looking cornpatch, drew a drink from one of his skins to start the saliva, and spat into the arid soil.
    • Soon the two of them had transformed the Erne into the muddy Mississippi flowing all the way to Ballyshannon through the cottonfields of Fermanagh and the fertile cornpatches of Donegal.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cornpatch. 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