cornhole

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
15
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈkɔɹnˌhoʊl/(US)

Definition of cornhole

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (UK, countable, dated, uncountable)A small room connected to a threshing floor.
    “The cornhole was a small, brick room opening off the threshing floor, about six or seven feet high, […] variously known as the cornhole or cornbin, and was designed for flail threshing, holding the grain until it was winnowed.”
    “A small room may be found opening off the threshing floor on one side […] This is the cornhole, a mid-eighteenth-century development so far known only in Staffordshire and Suffolk, with a few in east Sussex.”
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noun

  1. (UK, countable, dated, uncountable)A small room connected to a threshing floor.
    “The cornhole was a small, brick room opening off the threshing floor, about six or seven feet high, […] variously known as the cornhole or cornbin, and was designed for flail threshing, holding the grain until it was winnowed.”
    “A small room may be found opening off the threshing floor on one side […] This is the cornhole, a mid-eighteenth-century development so far known only in Staffordshire and Suffolk, with a few in east Sussex.”
  2. (US, uncountable)A game similar to beanbag toss, popular in Ohio, in which a bag filled with corn feed is thrown into a hole.
    “Cornhole, the indigenous pastime of Cincinnati's west side, is basically a democratized version of horseshoes.”
    “Cincinnatians, of course, know the true meaning of cornhole. The homegrown bag-toss game, which some suggest was even invented here, requires few tools: some beanbags, a box with a hole in it, and… well, that's it, really.”
  3. (countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar)The anus.

verb

  1. (slang, vulgar)To have anal intercourse with; to penetrate anally.
    “He'd just sent away two more guards from the women's side for having lesbian affairs with the prisoners, and one male guard who'd got caught cornholing colored boys.”

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Etymology

From corn + hole. (anus): From the old-fashioned practice of using dried corncobs instead of toilet paper in outdoor privies.

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