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say it: KAWR-nee
corny is an adjective meaning "dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality". It carries one recorded sense.
dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality
“bromidic sermons”
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 corny 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.