Citations:cornly
English citations of cornly
Of or relating to corn; cornlike edit
- 1881 August 25, “Corn on the Cob”, in Wit and Wisdom, volume 2, number 2, page 13:
- Dinner being under way he snatches up his cob and begins, darting at it with his mouth and revolving it slowly as he crunches onword in his cornly path, but suddenly he feels that he is observed—the glances of a couple of dozen eyes must be felt—and he looks up in astonishment.
- 1954, Harvard Alumni Bulletin - Volume 56, Issue 10 - Page 425:
- The "cornly" ancestry of corn rests on discoveries made by archeologists in long-abandoned Indian caves.