corny joke
- noun
- /ˈkɔrni dʒoʊk/
- Informal
- All those corny jokes about us—
- tell corny jokes
And I said more with Doctor Laura and her corny joke marathon.
- And I said more with Doctor Laura and her corny joke marathon.
Examples
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She rolled her eyes and said, "That was a corny joke, but it made me smile anyway."
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Remind me a little later to speak to you about those corny jokes.
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And I said more with Doctor Laura and her corny joke marathon.
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That's a corny joke even for you, Doc.
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I will remember how hard he worked for our family, how he would take off his glasses when he wanted to see something up close, and how he would tell such corny jokes.
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Dad told corny jokes, and Mom just couldn't stop smiling.
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While I love having serious, thought-provoking conversations, I also love being the first to crack a corny joke and to make people laugh.
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You don't miss Leo's corny jokes?
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Dad always tells a corny joke when we sit down for dinner, and we all laugh.
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Everyone groaned when he shared yet another corny joke at the party.
Synonyms
A joke that is so bad it makes people show annoyance
A silly, old-fashioned joke that makes people groan
A silly, overly sentimental joke or remark
Antonyms
How Corny
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Corny joke comes from the old idea that corn and country life were plain and simple, so people used corny to mean something a bit 'old-fashioned'. So a corny joke is a 'silly', 'old-fashioned', or 'predictable' joke that makes people smile or roll their eyes.