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English
Etymology
From corn + fed.
Adjective
cornfed (comparative more cornfed, superlative most cornfed)
- (not comparable, of an animal) Fed on corn.
- (informal, sometimes derogatory, of a person) Sheltered; uncultured.
1980 August 30, Gordon Gottlieb, “Rock Hudson: A Sphinx Without Secrets”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 8:Rock's friends, his real friends, present a picture of a nice guy: a Midwestern cornfed boy who heads west to Hollywood to break into pictures
- a cornfed hillbilly
- (informal, of a vehicle) Running on ethanol (E85).