cob

Examples

• All

• Then I cut white corn off the cob and fry it in the grease.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Corn, corn, corn on the cob on the beach.

• The place where corn on the cob comes from.

  Meet Monica Velour (2010)

• Can I suggest a fresh piece of corn on the cob with that today, sir?

  Edge of Seventeen (1999)

• Yeah, give him a corn on the cob.

  A Madea Family Funeral (2019)

• I have seen corn on the cob for sale in the market square in Krakow.

  Academic text (1992)

• And we were eating and we had finished corn on the cob and we had all these, we had all these corn cobs.

  Ear Biscuits

• There'd be collard greens with bacon, a big pot of hoppin' john, corn on the cob, and fried spoon bread.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The next day we swam in the sea, wandered the boardwalk, ate roasted corn on the cob, and drank beer for breakfast.

  Academic text (2009)

• I love eating sweet corn on the cob during summer barbecues.

Synonyms

C

corncob

vscob

4 3.1

A hard, round center inside an ear of corn that holds the kernels

is the shorter, more common form used for the same core

Compounds

C

corn on the cob

9 1.0

A cooked ear with rows of yellow kernels you eat by holding the ends

C

corn cob

3 1.3

A hard middle part of an ear of corn that holds the kernels

Surface Forms

Etymology