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Definition: Corned |
CornedAdjective1. (used especially of meat) cured in brine. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "corned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | CORNED. Drunk. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: CornedSynonym: cured (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Drunkenness | Adjective: drunk, tipsy; intoxicated; inebrious, inebriate, inebriated; in one's cups; in a state of intoxication;Noun: temulent, temulentive; bombed, smashed; fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou, fresh, merry, elevated; flustered, disguised, groggy, beery; top-heavy; potvaliant, glorious; potulent; squiffy; overcome, overtaken; whittled, screwed, tight, primed, corned, raddled, sewed up, lushy, nappy, muddled, muzzy, obfuscated, maudlin; crapulous, dead drunk. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Corned |
| English words defined with "corned": boiled dinner ♦ corned beef hash, Corning house ♦ New England boiled dinner ♦ Powdering tub ♦ Reuben. (references) |
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![]() | Salt and corned mutton - a few staples of the day at Scott's Hut Point shelter. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. | ![]() | Honey Brook (vicinity) Pennsylvania. Cheap tin steamer used for cooking corned beef in home of Amish FSA (Farm Security Administration) client. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Blue Ball, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Corned beef packed in jars ready for cooking. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Corned beef. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Bringing up father. "By golly, I wish I knew how to say corned beef an' cabbage in French ...". Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Economic History | Bahamas | There is no duty on market basket items -- breads, rice, sugar, corned beef and baby foods. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Corned" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 92.19% of the time. "Corned" is used about 64 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 92.19% | 59 | 44,010 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 3.13% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 3.13% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 64 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "corned": corned beef ♦ corned beef hash. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "corned": corned-beef. | |
Ending with "corned": cater-corned, cut-corned. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "corned"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i kripur (saline, salt, salted, salty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مملح (bacon, salt, salted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | солен (briny, pickled, saline, salt, salted, salty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 豝 (corned beef, female pig). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | hovìzí v konzervì (corned beef). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | cor (carrier sense signal, corned beef, heart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | suolattu (salted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Cor (core, corned beef, heart, multiplier). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παστό βοδινό (corned beef). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מיובל (horny, warty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sózott (in salt, salt, salted, salty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | diawetkan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | salato (biting, briny, expensive, salt, salted, saltily, salty, Savory, savoury, stiff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | コンパクト銀河 (combination, combination play, combinator, compact galaxy, companion, Compaq, comparator, compass, compatibility, compatible, compulsory, compulsory figure, computer, computer allergy, computer animation, computer art, computer geographics, computer graphics, computer mind, computer tomography, computer utility, computer virus, computer-vision, control panel, convenience, convenience foods, convenience store, corned beef, industrial campaign, industrial complex, industrial system, paid companion of a wealthy woman, plywood panel, to compare, women presenting products at consumer electronic or car shows). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | コン"ーフ (corned beef). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sailjey (brackish, briny, pickled, saline, salt, salty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ornedcay salgado (brackish, briny, piquant, pricey, saline, salt, salted, salt-marsh, salty). (various references) carne conservatã de vitã (corned beef). (various references) соленый (briny, pickled, saline, salt, salted). (various references) namabolekana (corned beef). (various references) usoljen (salt, soused). (various references) acecinado. (various references) konserverad (canned, tinned). (various references) salamura (brine, in salt, pickle, pickled, salted, souse). (various references) солоний (briny, pickled, saline, salt, salt water, salted, salty), гранильований, налитий зерном. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "corned": outscorned, scorned. (additional references) | |
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"Corned" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Carneddeu, Carneddi, Carnedds, Carnedoe, Cenred, cerned, Conrodd, cooned, corden, corened, corled, corne, corney, cornide, cornu, cornye, corsed, courne, crend, croned, crosned, Cunred, Kornei, morned, shorned, sorned. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: coden, coder, coned, cored, credo, crone, decor, drone, recon, redon. | |
-2 letters: cero, code, coed, cone, cord, core, corn, deco, doer, done, dore, nerd, node, once, redo, rend, rode. | |
-3 letters: cod, con, cor, den, doc, doe, don, dor, end, eon, ern, nod, nor, ode, one, orc, ore, rec, red, roc, rod, roe. | |
-4 letters: de, do. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: cornfed, crooned, crowned, crunode, decrown, dorneck, encoder, encored, scorned. | |
+2 letters: anchored, cartoned, censored, centroid, codriven, coendure, colander, conceder, condoler, condoner, condores, conducer, conelrad, confider, conjured, consider, cordoned, cornered, corniced, cornuted, crayoned, creodont, crunodes, deaconry, decrowns, decurion, doctrine, dornecks, encoders, endocarp, endosarc, enforced, frounced, necrosed, ordnance, rancored, reckoned, recoding, recoined, romanced, seconder, trounced, uncorked, unforced. | |
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