cornpone
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9.1
- noun
- /ˈkɔrnˌpoʊn/
- US
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cornpone
- At the picnic, everyone raved about the homemade cornpone served with butter.
- country cornpone
- little cornpone
Examples
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Inside were three peaches, some cornpone, an old pocketknife, and a small glass jar.
Fiction book (2002) -
Oh, um, I can cook cornpone.
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Y'all could have at least put some cornpone on the table.
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Those who came treated Lienor to an old-fashioned picnic of fried chicken, sweet melon, cornpone, and crawfish pie.
Fiction book (1998) -
For dinner, we enjoyed a delicious cornpone paired with a spicy chili.
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She baked a batch of cornpone to serve with the collard greens.
Synonyms
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2.4
A bread made from cornmeal usually served warm with butter
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9.5
A simple Southern cornbread people often make without milk or eggs and cook in a skillet
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2.0
A flat food like a pancake made from cornmeal and cooked on a pan
A small flat cake made from ground corn, usually fried or baked and served as a side
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cornpone combines corn and pone, and pone comes from a Native American word meaning 'bread'. So cornpone literally means 'corn bread' and refers to a simple, plain cornbread often made without milk or eggs.