puffcorn

noun

Etymology

From puff + corn.

  1. inherited from *ǵr̥h₂nóm — “grain; worn-down
  2. inherited from *kurną
  3. inherited from *korn
  4. inherited from corn
  5. inherited from corn
  6. compounded as puffcorn — “puff + corn

Definitions

  1. A corn snack, visually similar to popcorn, but made with corn meal and baked.

    • She tossed the pork rinds into the trash can and settled on some cheese puffcorn curls—not the healthiest things in the world but an improvement upon the former.
    • Additional products include pretzels, regular and cheese puffcorn, cheese curls, corn chips, tortilla chips, pork rinds and salsa dip.
    • Suddenly, something Henry said caught my attention. “Where'd you get these boxes of puffcorn?” he asked. “This stuff has no taste at all!”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for puffcorn. 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