- of or abounding in corn.
- old-fashioned, trite, or lacking in subtlety: corny jokes.
- mawkishly sentimental: a corny soap opera.
Origin of corny1
Synonyms for corny
- pertaining to or affected with corns of the feet.
Origin of corny2
Related Words for corniersentimental, hackneyed, old-fashioned, melodramatic, stupid, banal, stale, mawkish, dull, commonplace, feeble, shopworn, stereotyped, tired, warmed-over
- trite or banal
- sentimental or mawkish
- abounding in corn
Word Origin for corny
1570s, "full of corn, pertaining to corn, from corn (n.1) + -y (2). Chaucer used it of ale (late 14c.), perhaps to mean "malty." American English slang "old-fashioned, sentimental" is from 1932 (first attested in "Melody Maker"), perhaps originally "something appealing to country folk" (corn-fed in the same sense is attested from 1929). Related: Cornily; corniness.