corn

Definitions


[kɔːn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the chief cereal crop of a district, especially (in England) wheat or (in Scotland) oats
(e.g: fields of corn)

- something banal or sentimental
(e.g: the film is pure corn)


Phrases:
- corn on the cob

Origin:
Old English corn, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch koren and German Korn


[kɔːn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a small, painful area of thickened skin on the foot, especially on the toes, caused by pressure
(e.g: an ingrown nail on one foot and a corn on the other were now troubling me)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English: via Anglo-Norman French from Latin cornu ‘horn’




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