Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Folksy and homespun, as in manner or speech.
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- noun US, Appalachian A form of
cornbread made withoutmilk oreggs . - noun pejorative Something or someone considered stereotypical of rural, Southern US attitudes or attributes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried (southern)
Etymologies
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Examples
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When I finally got around to seeing the movie later, I thought, wow, kind of cornpone, and ... "
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Charlie Kirbo, a cornpone Southern lawyer but bright and close to Carter, was always open to my views.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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Charlie Kirbo, a cornpone Southern lawyer but bright and close to Carter, was always open to my views.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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Charlie Kirbo, a cornpone Southern lawyer but bright and close to Carter, was always open to my views.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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Whoever said, "Give those two their own movie!" struck gold as the cornpone couple appeared in low-budget hit after hit, thanks in no small part to Marjorie Main's excellent skill on even this tired material.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: 1939 -- Still Hollywood's Greatest Year Michael Giltz 2011
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I find cornbread, especially cornpone, to be the perfect accompaniment.
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The story here concerns a pair of American innocents abroad—Lightning McQueen, the bright-red race car brightly voiced by Owen Wilson, and Tow Mater, the buck-toothed, good-hearted tow truck who speaks in the cornpone tones of Larry the Cable Guy.
Oy Story: 'Cars 2' Is a Dollar-Driven Edsel Joe Morgenstern 2011
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As Black, Mr. Jackson must plead the case for living in a cornpone patois: I ain't got an original thought in my head.
Where the Time Goes Nancy deWolf Smith 2011
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Instead, Preminger allows the entire debate to be entirely driven by various forms of nonsense: the ONLY things we see Cooley's flag-waving as contrasted to Pidgeon's bullshit facade of polite talk as contrasted to Leffingwell's cornpone babble as contrasted to Van Ackerman attempting to eat the table.
A young reader discovers the meaning of paranoia in the political novels of Allen Drury 2009
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Without the volatile securities business that hobbled some banks, Wells is making hay from a consumer franchise once derided by its slicker Wall Street rivals as a Midwestern, cornpone operation after its 1998 merger with Minneapolis-based Norwest Corp.
In Tribute to Wells, Banks Try the Hard Sell Randall Smith 2011
madmouth commented on the word cornpone
"It was 'baker's bread' -- what the quality eat -- none of your low-down cornpone."
-Huckleberry Finn
August 18, 2010