corned

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Adjective

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corned (not comparable)

  1. consisting of grains; granulated
  2. (of meat) preserved in salt
  3. (slang, obsolete) Drunk.
    • 1890, John Hay, “The Pledge at Spunky Point”, in Poems, page 30:
      A year ago last Fo'th July / A lot of the boys was here. / We all got corned and signed the pledge / For to drink no more that year.

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Verb

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corned

  1. simple past and past participle of corn

References

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  • (drunk): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

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