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corned

corned

2 4.6
Meat that is preserved in salty water with spices
  • adjective
  • /kɔrnd/
translation icon : en conserva
  • Effectively it's corned beef, boiled carrots, peas, potatoes.
  • corned beef
  • corned beef sandwich

The Conan O'Brien corned beef coleslaw.

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Examples

  • "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.

  • I might need that seat after the corned beef.

  • "Of course it's not all corned beef and onions," he said.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • I think it's corned beef hash.

  • I wanted corned beef on rye... ...or else a roast beef with Russian.

  • "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.

  • I ordered a corned beef sandwich with mustard at the deli.

  • For dinner, we had corned beef and cabbage, a traditional meal.

Synonyms

salt-cured
vscorned
1 3.8

Made with salt so meat or fish do not go bad

relies on wet spiced brine instead of only dry salt
brine-cured
vscorned
6.7

Meat or other food is soaked in salty water to keep it from spoiling

uses a spiced brine rather than plain soaking
salted
vscorned
1.0

Food preserved with salt so it lasts longer

uses a wet spiced solution rather than simply adding salt
cured
vscorned
3.2

Food preserved with salt, smoke, or drying

means preservation specifically by spiced brine rather than any method

Compounds

22 1.0

Beef cured in salty water that people eat hot or in sandwiches

A fried mix of chopped corned beef, potatoes, and onions

Surface Forms

corned positive

Morphology

corned = corn (opaque) = corn + ed

Formed from 'corn' + '-ed' but the sense depends on the obsolete meaning of 'corn' = 'grain (of salt)', not the modern 'maize', so learners will likely be misled.

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.