unsophisticated, old-fashioned, banal, sentimental, etc.; corny
Origin of cornball
corn (noun) + (screw)ball a cornball person or thing
cornball
corn·ball
adjective
- The definition of cornball is slang to describe someone or something overly sentimental in a corny or silly way.
An over-the-top holiday card with hearts and flowers and overly romantic poems is an example of something that might be described as cornball.
- Cornball is defined as slang for a trite and overly sentimental person.
Someone who is so overly sentimental that he tears up at long distance commercials when the mother and son finally talk is an example of a cornball.
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cornball
Slang
noun
One who behaves in a mawkish or unsophisticated manner.
adjective
Mawkish or unsophisticated; corny: a kid's cornball humor.
Origin of cornball
From corn ball a ball of popcorn and molassesTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural cornballs)
- (US, informal) An unsophisticated person.
- Something excessively corny.
- That movie was a real cornball.
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