cornstalk

English

Etymology

corn +‎ stalk

Noun

cornstalk (plural cornstalks)

  1. (botany) The tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant, often ground for silage after harvest.
  2. (botany) A single specimen of a corn plant once past the seedling stage and which may, at maturity, bear multiple ears of corn.
  3. (Australia, slang, obsolete) A non-indigenous person born in Australia. [1]
  4. (Australia, slang, derogatory) a non-indigenous native of New South Wales. [1]
    He's a bloody cornstalk.
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References
  1. Marshall, Peter (2001) The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire‎, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 272 A few decades earlier he[a non-indigenous person of Australian birth] would have been nicknamed a ‘cornstalk’, a sarcastic reference to the way in which Australian children, like colonial wheat, grew fast and gangly; but labels could change with great rapidity, and by 1882 ‘cornstalk’ had become a caustic term for the New South Welsh.
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