corn-pone

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Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [kawrn pohn]
- /kɔrn poʊn/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [kawrn pohn]
- /kɔrn poʊn/

Definitions of corn-pone word

adjective corn-pone of or characteristic of an unsophisticated rural person, especially from the South: a corn-pone accent. 1
noun corn-pone corn bread, especially of a plain or simple kind. 1
noun corn-pone Alternative spelling of cornpone. 0

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Origin of corn-pone

First appearance:

before 1965

One of the 2% newest English words

First recorded in 1965-70

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Parts of speech for Corn-pone

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

Full grammatical hierarchy of Corn-pone

corn-pone popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 39% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.