Corn vs. Nubbin
Difference Between Corn and Nubbin
Cornnoun
The main cereal plant grown for its grain in a given region, such as oats in parts of Scotland and Ireland, and wheat or barley in England and Wales.
Nubbinnoun
A stub, especially a stub of undeveloped corn or fruit or nipple.
Cornnoun
Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
Nubbinnoun
(informal) A small protuberance, bud, bump, or knob.
As an avid button collector, I have had to develop an efficient way of removing the nubbin of thread from the buttonhole.Cornnoun
A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley.Nubbinnoun
(slang) The clitoris.
Cornnoun
A small, hard particle.
Nubbinnoun
a small nub (especially an undeveloped fruit or ear of corn)
Cornnoun
A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.
Cornnoun
Something (e.g. acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.
Cornnoun
(uncountable) A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and re-freezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
Cornverb
to granulate; to form a substance into grains
to corn gunpowderCornverb
to preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef
Cornverb
to provide with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed
Corn the horses.Cornverb
(transitive) to render intoxicated
ale strong enough to corn oneCornnoun
tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
Cornnoun
the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal
Cornnoun
ears of corn grown for human food
Cornnoun
a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes
Cornnoun
annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains
Cornnoun
whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn
Cornnoun
something sentimental or trite;
that movie was pure cornCornverb
feed (cattle) with corn
Cornverb
preserve with salt;
corned beef
