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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Fed on corn.
  • adjective Slang Healthy and strong, but provincial and unsophisticated.

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  • adjective Alternative spelling of cornfed.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective fed on corn
  • adjective strong and healthy but not sophisticated

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Examples

  • Oh yeah … those were white-bread corn-fed breeders so that must have been a miracle from gawd.

    Nadya Suleman, Dalmatian darkerblogistan 2009

  • Afterwards, waving smiley good-byes as the screen door slammed inside the last manure-footed fly of the season, we would pretend this was the most enjoyable and relaxing sojourn ever undertaken by the Midwest kinfolk; who now are worn out, corn-fed, under-financed, and facing several hundred miles of back-breaking, exhaust-choking, bug-splattering, road-hog crowded highways returning home.

    SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 609 2009

  • I will make a strong effort to never buy corn-fed beef again unless there are no other options.

    Finger Lakes Dines 2009

  • California born and finished, could compete with the cream of bulls corn-fed in Iowa or imported overseas from the immemorial home of Short Horns.

    CHAPTER I 2010

  • I will make a strong effort to never buy corn-fed beef again unless there are no other options.

    The New York Cork Report: 2009

  • You cannot operate a steakhouse if you're not serving corn-fed beef.

    Top Chef: All-Stars Reunion: Tom and Elia Go Head to Head! 2011

  • But we've never not served corn-fed beef in the restaurant.

    Top Chef: All-Stars Reunion: Tom and Elia Go Head to Head! 2011

  • "It came from going to have dinner at Craft in Las Vegas, and they told me that there was only had corn-fed beef," she said.

    Top Chef: All-Stars Reunion: Tom and Elia Go Head to Head! 2011

  • He's all about high-fructose corn syrup and there is only corn-fed beef on all of his menus now.

    Top Chef: All-Stars Reunion: Tom and Elia Go Head to Head! 2011

  • The country's economic success is translating into more of its people adopting middle-class tastes for things such as milk from grain-fed cows, meat from corn-fed hogs, and foods fried in soybean oil.

    China's Hunger for Corn Turns Market on Ear Tom Polansek 2011

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equivalents (2)

Other words for 'corn-fed'

  1. nourished
  2. provincial

same context (19)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. all-night-roasted
  2. blaze-faced
  3. charcuterie
  4. corned
  5. divisorial
  6. fagan
  7. grass-fed
  8. hand-picked
  9. infect
  10. laal
  11. life-and
  12. lower-cost
  13. mid-90s
  14. one-trick
  15. pink-footed
  16. sweet-and-sour
  17. uppish
  18. vadre
  19. white-footed

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