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English Wikipedia has an article on:cornholeWikipedia

Etymology

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From corn +‎ hole.

(anus): From the old-fashioned practice of using dried corncobs instead of toilet paper in outdoor privies. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

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• (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɔɹnˌhoʊl/

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

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cornhole (countable and uncountable, plural cornholes)

1. (UK, dated) A small room connected to a threshing floor.
   • 1969, J E C Peters, The Development of Farm Buildings in Western Lowland Staffordshire up to 1880‎[1], page 97:The cornhole was a small, brick room opening off the threshing floor, about six or seven feet high, […] variously known as the cornhole or cornbin, and was designed for flail threshing, holding the grain until it was winnowed.
   • 1981, J E C Peters, Discovering Traditional Farm Buildings, page 17 with illustration:A small room may be found opening off the threshing floor on one side […] This is the cornhole, a mid-eighteenth-century development so far known only in Staffordshire and Suffolk, with a few in east Sussex.
2. (US, uncountable) A game similar to beanbag toss, popular in Ohio, in which a bag filled with corn feed is thrown into a hole.
   • 2002 October, “Cornhole Game”, in Cincinnati Magazine, page 114:Cornhole, the indigenous pastime of Cincinnati's west side, is basically a democratized version of horseshoes.
   • 2009, F. Winternitz, S. Bellman, Insiders' Guide to Cincinnati, page 230:Cincinnatians, of course, know the true meaning of cornhole. The homegrown bag-toss game, which some suggest was even invented here, requires few tools: some beanbags, a box with a hole in it, and… well, that's it, really.
3. (slang, vulgar) The anus.

Synonyms

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• (beanbag-like game): baggo, corn toss

Further reading

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• American Cornhole Association • Official Game Rules

Verb

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cornhole (third-person singular simple present cornholes, present participle cornholing, simple past and past participle cornholed)

1. (slang, vulgar) To have anal intercourse with; to penetrate anally.
   • 2006, Settling Accounts, Book Three: The Grapple, →ISBN:He'd just sent away two more guards from the women's side for having lesbian affairs with the prisoners, and one male guard who'd got caught cornholing colored boys.

Synonyms

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• (have anal intercourse with): sodomize

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