See also: Popcorn

English

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Popcorn.
 
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Etymology

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Short for popped +‎ corn. By surface analysis, pop +‎ corn.

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popcorn (countable and uncountable, plural popcorns)

  1. (chiefly uncountable) A snack food made from corn or maize kernels popped by dry heating.
  2. (chiefly uncountable) A type of corn or maize with a hard outer hull that, along with the type of starch it contains, makes it suitable for popping.
  3. (knitting) A kind of stitch similar to a bobble.
    • 2008, Claire Compton, Sue Whiting, The Knitting and Crochet Bible, page 45:
      From the top the sample shows four stitch popcorns, five stitch bobbles, two rows of bells and a central leaf with leaves sloping to the left and right each side.
  4. (attributive) A form of brainstorming in which participants call out their ideas immediately, instead of waiting for an assigned turn to speak.
    • 2002, Betsi Harris Ehrlich, Transactional Six Sigma and Lean Servicing, page 161:
      With the "popcorn" method, all team members in the session spontaneously call out ideas and a facilitator writes them on a flip chart.
    • 2011, Carolyn Jane Bohler, God the What?:
      As a way to begin the discussion about God's will, you might want to ask the group to do some "popcorn" brainstorming about the pros and cons of believing that everything that happens is God's will.
    • 2022, Jill Harrison Berg, Uprooting Instructional Inequity, page 155:
      Ask: What Twitter-style hashtag characterizes our community? (Use popcorn brainstorming to elicit responses.)
  5. (humorous) Entertainment for observers.
    • 2020 July 10, CGP Grey, 3:55 from the start, in Supreme Court Rules on Faithless Electors in the Electoral College[1]:
      And not at all about how a state picks which group of electors to send, which is the whole basis of the NaPoVoInterCo plan, and will yield plenty more Supreme Court popcorn if it ever gets enacted.

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Verb

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popcorn (third-person singular simple present popcorns, present participle popcorning, simple past and past participle popcorned)

  1. (of a guinea pig or chinchilla) To stand or jump up quickly.
    • 2000, Dale L. Sigler, A Grown-up's Guide to Guinea Pigs, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 58:
      Popcorning behavior is a fun sight—as long as you know what it is. Otherwise, it can scare you. During this action a pig runs around very fast and suddenly leaps straight up in the air, twitching and squeaking. It then lands and takes off again, often in another direction. This activity shows pure joy. Babies start to popcorn when they are about two weeks old or so—they may try it earlier, but they usually fall down instead.
  2. To pop repeatedly, like popcorn cooking.
  3. (knitting, rare) To use the popcorn stitch.
    • 2008, Leisure Arts, I Can't Believe I'm Knitting Cables, page 9:
      You've been cabling, twisting, popcorning and bobbling. See, we told you that they weren't so hard.

Czech

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  • IPA(key): [ˈpopkorn]
  • Hyphenation: pop‧corn

Noun

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popcorn m inan

  1. popcorn

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Further reading

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  • popcorn”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

Finnish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English popcorn.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpopkorn/, [ˈpo̞pko̞rn]
  • Syllabification(key): pop‧corn

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popcorn

  1. popcorn
    Synonyms: paukkumaissi, poppari

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Inflection of popcorn (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative popcorn popcornit
genitive popcornin popcornien
partitive popcornia popcorneja
illative popcorniin popcorneihin
singular plural
nominative popcorn popcornit
accusative nom. popcorn popcornit
gen. popcornin
genitive popcornin popcornien
partitive popcornia popcorneja
inessive popcornissa popcorneissa
elative popcornista popcorneista
illative popcorniin popcorneihin
adessive popcornilla popcorneilla
ablative popcornilta popcorneilta
allative popcornille popcorneille
essive popcornina popcorneina
translative popcorniksi popcorneiksi
abessive popcornitta popcorneitta
instructive popcornein
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of popcorn (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative popcornini popcornini
accusative nom. popcornini popcornini
gen. popcornini
genitive popcornini popcornieni
partitive popcorniani popcornejani
inessive popcornissani popcorneissani
elative popcornistani popcorneistani
illative popcorniini popcorneihini
adessive popcornillani popcorneillani
ablative popcorniltani popcorneiltani
allative popcornilleni popcorneilleni
essive popcorninani popcorneinani
translative popcornikseni popcorneikseni
abessive popcornittani popcorneittani
instructive
comitative popcorneineni
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative popcornisi popcornisi
accusative nom. popcornisi popcornisi
gen. popcornisi
genitive popcornisi popcorniesi
partitive popcorniasi popcornejasi
inessive popcornissasi popcorneissasi
elative popcornistasi popcorneistasi
illative popcorniisi popcorneihisi
adessive popcornillasi popcorneillasi
ablative popcorniltasi popcorneiltasi
allative popcornillesi popcorneillesi
essive popcorninasi popcorneinasi
translative popcorniksesi popcorneiksesi
abessive popcornittasi popcorneittasi
instructive
comitative popcorneinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative popcornimme popcornimme
accusative nom. popcornimme popcornimme
gen. popcornimme
genitive popcornimme popcorniemme
partitive popcorniamme popcornejamme
inessive popcornissamme popcorneissamme
elative popcornistamme popcorneistamme
illative popcorniimme popcorneihimme
adessive popcornillamme popcorneillamme
ablative popcorniltamme popcorneiltamme
allative popcornillemme popcorneillemme
essive popcorninamme popcorneinamme
translative popcorniksemme popcorneiksemme
abessive popcornittamme popcorneittamme
instructive
comitative popcorneinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative popcorninne popcorninne
accusative nom. popcorninne popcorninne
gen. popcorninne
genitive popcorninne popcornienne
partitive popcornianne popcornejanne
inessive popcornissanne popcorneissanne
elative popcornistanne popcorneistanne
illative popcorniinne popcorneihinne
adessive popcornillanne popcorneillanne
ablative popcorniltanne popcorneiltanne
allative popcornillenne popcorneillenne
essive popcorninanne popcorneinanne
translative popcorniksenne popcorneiksenne
abessive popcornittanne popcorneittanne
instructive
comitative popcorneinenne
third-person possessor
singular plural
nominative popcorninsa popcorninsa
accusative nom. popcorninsa popcorninsa
gen. popcorninsa
genitive popcorninsa popcorniensa
partitive popcorniaan
popcorniansa
popcornejaan
popcornejansa
inessive popcornissaan
popcornissansa
popcorneissaan
popcorneissansa
elative popcornistaan
popcornistansa
popcorneistaan
popcorneistansa
illative popcorniinsa popcorneihinsa
adessive popcornillaan
popcornillansa
popcorneillaan
popcorneillansa
ablative popcorniltaan
popcorniltansa
popcorneiltaan
popcorneiltansa
allative popcornilleen
popcornillensa
popcorneilleen
popcorneillensa
essive popcorninaan
popcorninansa
popcorneinaan
popcorneinansa
translative popcornikseen
popcorniksensa
popcorneikseen
popcorneiksensa
abessive popcornittaan
popcornittansa
popcorneittaan
popcorneittansa
instructive
comitative popcorneineen
popcorneinensa

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French

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popcorn m (plural popcorns)

  1. post-1990 spelling of pop-corn

Norwegian Bokmål

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popcorn n (definite singular popcornet, uncountable)

  1. alternative spelling of popkorn

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Polish

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popcorn

Etymology

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Borrowed from English popcorn.

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popcorn m inan

  1. popcorn (snack food made from maize kernels popped by dry heating)
    Synonym: prażona kukurydza

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Further reading

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  • popcorn in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • popcorn in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • popcorn in PWN's encyclopedia

Slovak

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popcorn m inan (genitive singular popcornu, nominative plural popcorny, genitive plural popcornov, declension pattern of dub)

  1. popcorn

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References

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  • popcorn”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Spanish

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Noun

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popcorn m (plural popcorns)

  1. popcorn
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:palomita

Swedish

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Etymology

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From English popcorn. First attested in the early 1950s.

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popcorn n

  1. popcorn

Declension

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Declension of popcorn 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative popcorn popcornet popcorn popcornen
Genitive popcorns popcornets popcorns popcornens

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