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say it: KAWRN-huh-sking
cornhusking is a noun meaning "a social gathering for the purpose of husking corn". It is pronounced /ˈkɔɹnˌhʌskɪŋ/ — KAWRN-huh-sking. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a social gathering for the purpose of husking corn
the act of removing the husks from ears of corn
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cornhusking come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.