cornflakes
- noun
- /ˈkɔrnˌfleɪks/
:
copos de maíz
- The store offers several brands of cornflakes to choose from.
Kellogg invented cornflakes to stop people from masturbating.
- Kellogg invented cornflakes to stop people from masturbating.
- And he'll come into the kitchen diner and he'll take out the cornflakes out of the cupboard fast, really fast, like Speedy Gonzalez.
- I don't like cornflakes, but I like toya sounds.
- Fruit loops, Cornflakes or Captain Crunch.
- Your parents said, OK, you can only get the thing that says WIC next to it, which was kicks, cornflakes, all the stuff that had no sugar.
- That Kubly's mother would grab the milk bottle of urine from the doorstep and pour it over her cornflakes?
- It has vegetation, a lot of slow moving bores that are easy to kill, and for some reason tons of Costco sized boxes of cornflakes.
- You know, there was times we would be in the bed wrestling, fighting over cornflakes, and then Kevin Hart's like, what the fuck did you just he he wouldn't let it die.
Examples
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For breakfast, I usually eat a bowl of cornflakes with milk.
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It was Crunchy Nut Cornflakes.
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And this guy's chomping on his cornflakes over here.
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We still have cornflakes, chocolate chips and marshmallows to add.
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Now, often since we were kids, you know, we've been raised on Kellogg's cornflakes, Heinz tomato ketchup.
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Quaker Oats, Kellogg's Cornflakes, Post Raisin Bran, General Mills Cheerios.
Academic text (2006) -
She added fresh strawberries to her cornflakes to make them more delicious.
Synonyms
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A food made from grains that you eat with milk for breakfast
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A crunchy breakfast mix of baked oats, nuts, and dried fruit
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A thin, crunchy flake of toasted corn eaten with milk for breakfast
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A breakfast cereal made from whole wheat flakes often with an athlete on the box
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A thin crisp toasted piece made from corn eaten for breakfast with milk
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Food people usually eat in the morning, like cereal or eggs
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A breakfast cereal of bran flakes mixed with raisins
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A thin, crisp piece of breakfast cereal made from whole wheat
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A breakfast food like flakes or puffs you eat with milk without cooking
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Small round pieces of oat cereal often eaten with milk
A small flat crunchy piece of wheat eaten for breakfast
Grains of wheat that swell when you heat them and people eat for breakfast
Small toasted grains from wheat or barley eaten for breakfast and as a side
A crisp cereal made from oats and nuts
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Etymology
The word cornflakes is made from the two simple words corn, meaning 'grain', and flakes, meaning 'thin, flat pieces'. It was used for the crisp, toasted breakfast cereal made from corn, so the name simply means 'thin pieces of corn' and explains why we call that cereal cornflakes.