CORNPONE

PRONUNCIATION: (KORN-pohn)

MEANING: adjective: Rustic; folksy; countrified.
noun: Unleavened corn bread, baked or fried.

ETYMOLOGY: From English corn + Virginia Algonquian apones (bread). The s in apones was dropped to make the word singular. Some other originally singular words that again became singular in English are cherry (from French cerise) and pea (from Latin pisa). Earliest documented use: 1860.
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ACORNPONE - unleavened bread, baked or fried, made of oak seeds. If sneered at, it's SCORNPONE; if eaten for breakfast it's MORNPONE

CORNBONE - an imaginative child's word for "cob"

CORNPOE - a rustic, folksy, countrified writer of horror tales and macabre verses