Monday, October 30, 2006
Cornuted
Cornuted means with horns or horn-like projections. So next time you're down on the farm you can sound incredibly intelligent and describe a horned animal as cornuted. Sonnjea B won the vote with her idea that cornuted related to cost cutting by companies with no thought of the end result for the poor consumer. Keep up the good work Sonnjea B!
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Cornuted is to be shortened or abbreviated in some way. An example - "Jude decided to quickly check out the Word Imperfect site while her wheatbags were heating up in the microwave. The necessity of the wheatbags being due to the fact it was unseasonably cold for the end of October in New Zealand and her husband was still away in the US and not due home until the day after tomorrow, hence her human wheatbag was not available. At this point of writing the microwave did the 3 long beeps to signal the wheatbags were ready to be taken to bed, accompanied by a good book. Therefore Jude realised she had only enough time to give a cornuted definition of cornuted.
Cornuted is mixed up. It often describes things like animals. For example a zebra with spots is cornuted. So is a green kangaroo.
Tomorrow's word should be "wheatbag", for this and any other American comletely in the dark when it comes to this. Am I right to assume it's a bag of wheat that's heated and used to warm a chilled person?
Ok, on to "cornuted":
Cornuted is being confused and distracted, with no clue of what is going on because of a complete lack of knowledge on a certain point. "Reese went happily to her laptop to check Word Imperfect, prepared to challenge her mind with the task of pulling out of thin air the meaning to a word she does not know. Upon seeing the word for the day, and reading the first comment on it, her mind was so thoroughly cornuted that it went blank and nothing inspirational would come to her."
This happens every time I go to a corn fest. This is a community gathering where people go see neighbors, old high school friends, and relatives. It is a family friendly environment.
There is a big corn roast and people of all ages are stuffing themselves with corn on the cob.
So, when we return home from a corn roast, it takes several hours, even overnight, for the stomach to cornute.
cornuted is an adjective describing bowel movements that are a collection of small balls stuck together, looking like an ear of corn. Not to be confused with "corn poop," which is what you get when you eat corn and it doesn't digest properly.
Actually, it started as a rugby term but now is used mostly by American football players. It desribes a certain kind of injury after a tackle, when parts of your protective gear are driven into some sensitive anatomy. Such as "Bob was so severely cornuted that he was unable to walk off the field"
Cornuted is West Virginia slang for confused or confounded. "Vic was completely cornuted by the Chinenglish assembly instructions."
Cornuted is a word that described when your drying gets rained on.
For example...
When Mr. C arrived at the divecentre he found his pants (knickers to my American friends) had been cornuted in the night.
A newt with a corn on it's foot.
Cornuted is when someone throws a bag of corn nuts at you...you've been cornuted.
In case you noticed, it says I've got two words for Sunday. It's a time warp thing. In NZ I usually write my new word at 8pm at night which was always the beginning of that day in the northern hemisphere. However, I must have done it at a different time because it says it's for Sunday. So encomium was for Sunday. Cornuted is for Monday but in NZ it's actually Tuesday. Feeling cornuted? Anyway, whatever. We'll just pretend it's fine and it will be. Also, I turned off word verification because it's driving me nuts. So if spammers come I'll turn it back on, but until then it's staying off. By the way, this is not an entry for cornuted!
Cornuted is to be at the end of something, it signifies completion after a long and arduous journey. "They had all put a lot of energy into the project and were relieved that it had now reached the point that it was cornuted"
Is it just me or does anyone else find that the longer they look at a word, the harder it gets to think of a meaning? The more you say it, it starts to sound really strange. Sorry to digress.
Totally agree with you Sara....and in saying that you have actually stumbled onto the true meaning of cornuted. Cornuted is what happens when the more you look at a word, the weirder it looks, so cornuted is a perfect example of a word being, well, cornuted!
Cornuted is a term used for docarting your body as a form of art. At a basic level it includes lipstick and mascara, moving through to tattoos, coloured hairstyles and brazilian waxes. E.g. "Everyone laughed at my green mohawk, but none of them appreciated the true artistic merits of having my hair cornuted in this way".
...sorry, should read "decorating"
To cornute is when a company takes shortcuts or cuts corners in an effort maximize profits, with no thought to the consumers. It was a shame Emily's bathtub -- not to mention Emily -- plummeted right through the floor, but not surprising considering how the shady contractors cornuted that job.
Cornuted is how our cat felt after making THAT special visit to her vet.
Hey Reese, that is exactly what a wheatbag is. A step up from a hot water bottle, because they can't leak and burn you. I would have thought they originated in the US. If not, perhaps I can come over there, sell heaps and make my millions! They are also good for sore backs or aches and pains in various parts of your body. Because most homes here don't have central heating, wheatbags come in handy.
It means to decorate with a stylised pattern of cornus, which are a mythical beast, half crab and half cat.
Sorry I've missed a few days, Wordimp -- my internet has been a bit dodgy.
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