Crossword clues for cornpone
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US Appalachian English) A form of cornbread made without milk or eggs. 2 (context pejorative English) Something or someone considered stereotypical of rural, Southern US attitudes or attributes.
WordNet
n. cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried (Southern) [syn: pone]
Usage examples of "cornpone".
He munched some cornpone for breakfast, washed it down with buttermilk, and dug out his boots.
Kenny began a long, cornpone monologue on the values of education and the joys of philanthropy.
Let the reader ride from Abingdon through a wilderness of cornpone and rusty bacon, and then judge.
He speaks, not in some cornpone hick accent, but still with a rural twang to his laconic voice.
Liberals belittled every bust of a terrorist cell as an overhyped publicity stunt from that cornpone Ashcroft.
There was a screen showing a succession of faces and scenes that had somehow gotten out of sync with the commentary, so a picture of the great Willie Nelson was identified as someone called Cornpone Cawson, the Hayseed Hick.
God, faith, Bible-thumping, it was all just a piece of that whole cornpone tradition that had 738 THE LAWS OF OUR FATHERS its foot on the throat of everybody underneath.
Little of what he actually said was original, and often to us he comes across as unbelievably sentimental, real cornpone hokum stuff.