corned
- adjective
- /kɔrnd/
- Effectively it's corned beef, boiled carrots, peas, potatoes.
- corned beef
- corned beef sandwich
The Conan O'Brien corned beef coleslaw.
- The Conan O'Brien corned beef coleslaw.
- Like my legs right now look like corned beef.
- And Lucky Charms and Lucky Charms, corned beef pants made of burlap and a shovel.
Examples
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"Corned beef, coleslaw, and Russian dressing," Marty said after the first bite.
Fiction book (1999) -
You just had pickle roll ups, corned beef, cream cheese and a dill pickle all rolled up together like sushi.
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I might need that seat after the corned beef.
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"Of course it's not all corned beef and onions," he said.
Fiction book (1994) -
I think it's corned beef hash.
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I wanted corned beef on rye... ...or else a roast beef with Russian.
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"I'll have a corned beef sandwich, too," he shouted.
Fiction book (1991) -
Oh, he won't mind, seeing as how tonight's corned-beef night.
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I ordered a corned beef sandwich with mustard at the deli.
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For dinner, we had corned beef and cabbage, a traditional meal.
Synonyms
Made with salt so meat or fish do not go bad
Meat or other food is soaked in salty water to keep it from spoiling
Food preserved with salt so it lasts longer
Food preserved with salt, smoke, or drying
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Corned comes from an old use of corn meaning 'a grain' or 'small hard piece', referring to the large grains of salt used to preserve meat. So corned meat is meat preserved with these 'salt grains', which is why corned beef tastes salty and keeps for a long time.