英语词汇corny的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

corny. Corny, for something old-fashioned, unsophisticated, and unsubtle, what is often called “tacky” in today’s slang, has its origin in America’s Corn Belt. Comedians playing to unso- phisticated “corn-fed” audiences in the Midwest gave them the corn-fed humor they wanted, so much so that corn came to be known as “what farmers feed pigs and comedians feed farm- ers.” Soon corn-fed humor became simply corny jokes, the phrase possibly helped along by the Italian word carne “cheap meat,” being applied to the “cheap jokes” the comedians told. Corny eventually was used to describe anything old-fashioned, full of clichés, or mawkishly sentimental.

词汇	corny
词源	corny. Corny, for something old-fashioned, unsophisticated, and unsubtle, what is often called “tacky” in today’s slang, has its origin in America’s Corn Belt. Comedians playing to unso- phisticated “corn-fed” audiences in the Midwest gave them the corn-fed humor they wanted, so much so that corn came to be known as “what farmers feed pigs and comedians feed farm- ers.” Soon corn-fed humor became simply corny jokes, the phrase possibly helped along by the Italian word carne “cheap meat,” being applied to the “cheap jokes” the comedians told. Corny eventually was used to describe anything old-fashioned, full of clichés, or mawkishly sentimental.
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