Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who behaves in a mawkish or unsophisticated manner.
  • adjective Mawkish or unsophisticated; corny.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A ball made of popped corn, cemented with white of eggs, and sweetened with molasses or sugar.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a corn ball.
  • noun informal a person who is corny; one who is overly sentimental.
  • noun informal an unsophisticated person; a country bumpkin.
  • adjective same as corny{5}.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun US, informal An unsophisticated person.
  • noun Something excessively corny.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From corn ball, a ball of popcorn and molasses.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

corn +‎ ball

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  • Can't believe hernesheir or ruzuzu hasn't included this on some panoptical corn-themed list.

    June 8, 2011

  • Done.

    June 8, 2011

  • Ridiculous. Every potential wordie list, etc.

    June 8, 2011

  • Read this in a font with bad kerning and it sounds like the start of a well-known Christmas carol.

    June 8, 2011

  • O cornball ye faithful?

    June 8, 2011

  • And here I was thinking "Silent Cornballs."

    June 9, 2011

  • In the abrupt jargon of railroad telegraphy, cornball stood for the phrase "will not be confirmed". --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906.

    January 21, 2013