Corn vs. Nubbin

Corn vs. Nubbin — Is There a Difference?
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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.

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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 gunpowder
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Cornverb

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 one

Cornnoun

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 corn

Cornverb

feed (cattle) with corn

Cornverb

preserve with salt;

corned beef