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English word cornball comes from English ball, English corn
ball (English)
(anatomy) The front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes.. (ballistics) A solid, spherical nonexplosive missile for a cannon, etc.. (cricket) A single delivery by the bowler, six of which make up an over.. (farriery, historical) A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.. (mathematics) The set of points in a metric space lying within a given distance (the [...]
corn (English)
(uncountable) A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and re-freezing, often in mountain spring conditions. (British, uncountable) The main cereal plant grown for its grain in a given region, such as oats in parts of Scotland and Ireland, and wheat or barley in England and Wales.. (US, Canada, Australia, uncountable) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.. A grain or seed, [...]
cornball (English)
(US, informal) An unsophisticated person.. A ball of popped corn stuck together with soft candy from molasses or sugar.. Something excessively corny.