corned
English
Adjective
corned (not comparable)
- consisting of grains; granulated
- (of meat) preserved in salt
- (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.
Derived terms
Translations
preserved in salt
Verb
corned
- simple past and past participle of corn
References
- (drunk): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary