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Cornhusker

Cornhusker

1 7.2
A person from Nebraska, especially an athlete at the University of Nebraska
  • noun
  • /ˈkɔrnˌhʌskər/
  • US
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  • The festival celebrated the heritage of Cornhuskers with traditional foods and music.

All the things that made you you as a Nebraska Cornhusker fans, shit can't change now.

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Examples

  • Here comes the luckiest cornhusker in Contra Costa County.

    When the Game Stands Tall (2014)

  • As a proud Cornhusker, she always cheers for the University of Nebraska football team.

  • Hey, guys, let's head on down to the Cornhusker State Road trip.

  • Born and raised in Lincoln, he is a true Cornhusker at heart.

Synonyms

Nebraskan
vsCornhusker
1 3.2

A person who was born in or lives in the US state of Nebraska

is an informal nickname often used for the state's university athletes and teams

Compounds

Cornhusker State
  • US
6.0

A nickname for Nebraska, the US state known for corn farming

Surface Forms

Cornhusker singular
Cornhuskers plural

Morphology

Cornhusker = corn + husker (transparent) = corn + husker

Formed by straightforward compounding of 'corn' + 'husker' (one who husks corn), so the meaning is directly recoverable from the parts.

Etymology

The word Cornhusker comes from the farming task of husking corn, which is taking off the 'husk' that covers an ear of corn. Because Nebraska grows a lot of corn, people from the state and the University of Nebraska team became known as Cornhuskers.