Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to corncob
Participle: corncobbed
Gerund: corncobbing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | corncob |
| you | corncob |
| he;she;it | corncobs |
| we | corncob |
| you | corncob |
| they | corncob |
Perfect
| I | have corncobbed |
| you | have corncobbed |
| he;she;it | has corncobbed |
| we | have corncobbed |
| you | have corncobbed |
| they | have corncobbed |
Past
| I | corncobbed |
| you | corncobbed |
| he;she;it | corncobbed |
| we | corncobbed |
| you | corncobbed |
| they | corncobbed |
Pluperfect
| I | had corncobbed |
| you | had corncobbed |
| he;she;it | had corncobbed |
| we | had corncobbed |
| you | had corncobbed |
| they | had corncobbed |
Future
| I | will corncob |
| you | will corncob |
| he;she;it | will corncob |
| we | will corncob |
| you | will corncob |
| they | will corncob |
Future Perfect
| I | will have corncobbed |
| you | will have corncobbed |
| he;she;it | will have corncobbed |
| we | will have corncobbed |
| you | will have corncobbed |
| they | will have corncobbed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | corncob |
| you | corncob |
| he;she;it | corncob |
| we | corncob |
| you | corncob |
| they | corncob |
Perfect
| I | have corncobbed |
| you | have corncobbed |
| he;she;it | have corncobbed |
| we | have corncobbed |
| you | have corncobbed |
| they | have corncobbed |
Imperfect
| I | corncobbed |
| you | corncobbed |
| he;she;it | corncobbed |
| we | corncobbed |
| you | corncobbed |
| they | corncobbed |
Pluperfect
| I | had corncobbed |
| you | had corncobbed |
| he;she;it | had corncobbed |
| we | had corncobbed |
| you | had corncobbed |
| they | had corncobbed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would corncob |
| you | would corncob |
| he;she;it | would corncob |
| we | would corncob |
| you | would corncob |
| they | would corncob |
Perfect
| I | would have corncobbed |
| you | would have corncobbed |
| he;she;it | would have corncobbed |
| we | would have corncobbed |
| you | would have corncobbed |
| they | would have corncobbed |
Imperative
| you | corncob |
| we | Let's corncob |
| you | corncob |
Verbs conjugated like 'corncob'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'corncob'
cornrow,
caracol,
coanchor,
conch,
concoct,
concord,
concur,
condog,
confab,
convoy,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From corn + cob. The Internet slang sense emerged from a 2011 absurdist tweet by Weird Twitter personality dril in which a man furiously denies being owned as he transforms into a corncob.
Sample Sentences
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“Do you enjoy being corncobbed?” [2017 July 18, Jeremy Gordon, “CNN’s Most Cynical Pundit Got Mercilessly Owned in a Reddit AMA”, in SPIN:]
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Trump had lost but was denying that this was the case. He had been corncobbed. [2017 September 4, Amelia Tait, “The internet dictionary: what does it mean to be corncobbed?”, in The New Statesmen:]
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Distracted cops, rude asteroids and the corncobbing of Andrew Koenig [2021, Daniel Hill, "The Big Mad: Missed Connections", Riverfront Times, 24 March 2021 - 30 March 2021, page 11]