Definition of "cornpone" [cornpone]

• Chiefly Southern & Midland U.S. See johnnycake. See Regional Notes at johnnycake, light bread, pone. (noun)
• Informal Folksy and homespun, as in manner or speech: a penchant for cornpone humor; cornpone political prose. (adjective)

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• "When I finally got around to seeing the movie later, I thought, wow, kind of cornpone, and ... ""
• "Charlie Kirbo, a cornpone Southern lawyer but bright and close to Carter, was always open to my views."
• "The story here concerns a pair of American innocents abroad—Lightning McQueen, the bright-red race car brightly voiced by Owen Wilson, and Tow Mater, the buck-toothed, good-hearted tow truck who speaks in the cornpone tones of Larry the Cable Guy."