• Corncob

    Pronunciation

    • rhotic IPA: /ˈkɔɹnkÉ’b/
    • non-rhotic IPA: /ˈkɔːnkÉ’b/
    • US enPR: kôrnʹkŏb, IPA: ˈkɔɹnkÉ‘b
    • Hyphenation: corn + cob

    Alternative forms

    Origin

    corn + cob

    Full definition of corncob

    Noun

    corncob

    (plural corncobs)
    1. The central cylindrical core of an ear of corn (maize) on which the kernels are attached in rows.
      • 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., , The “Breakfast-Table” Series, George Routledge and Sons (1882), page 23:London is like a shelled corncob on the Derby day, and there is not a clerk who could raise the money to hire a saddle with an old hack under it that can sit down on his office-stool the next day without wincing.
      • 1922, ed. Henry Haven Windsor, "Corncob Seen as Source of New Industry", Popular Mechanics, volume XXXVIII, page 765:Six years of persistent research at the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture, has resulted in establishing the fact that a number of interesting and useful by-products can be derived from the humble corncob.
      • 2009, Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters Street, Random House, ISBN 978-1-4000-6833-3, page 32:He bit into a corncob, and Chisom watched him munch with his mouth open, his jaws working the corn like a mini grinding machine.

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