corned

English

Adjective

corned (not comparable)

1. consisting of grains; granulated
2. (of meat) preserved in salt
3. (slang, obsolete) Drunk.
   • 1890, John Hay, “The Pledge at Spunky Point”, in Poems, page 30:

     A year ago last Fo'th July / A lot of the boys was here. / We all got corned and signed the pledge / For to drink no more that year.

Derived terms

• corned beef
• corned-out
• uncorned

 

Translations

preserved in salt

• Bulgarian: осолен (bg) (osolen)
• Greek: παστός (el) (pastós)
• Irish: saillte
• Manx: sailjey

Verb

corned

1. simple past and past participle of corn

References

• (drunk): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• Codner, Conder, conder, recond