cornfed

See also: corn-fed

English

Etymology

From corn +‎ fed.

Adjective

cornfed (comparative more cornfed, superlative most cornfed)

  1. (not comparable, of an animal) Fed on corn.
  2. (informal, sometimes derogatory, of a person) Sheltered; uncultured.
    • 1980 August 30, Gordon Gottlieb, “Rock Hudson: A Sphinx Without Secrets”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 8:
      Rock's friends, his real friends, present a picture of a nice guy: a Midwestern cornfed boy who heads west to Hollywood to break into pictures
    a cornfed hillbilly
  3. (informal, of a vehicle) Running on ethanol (E85).
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