corn on the cob

See also: corn-on-the-cob

English

Freshly grilled corn on the cob

Alternative forms

• corn-on-the-cob

Noun

corn on the cob (usually uncountable, plural corns on the cob)

1. Cooked ears of corn (maize, specifically sweet corn).

   Synonyms: butterpop, cornstick, long maize, pole corn, sweet pole

   Hypernyms: corn, maize, sweet corn

   Hyponyms: cobette, roastnear

   • 2013, Henriette Lazaridis Power, The Clover House: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 405:

     […] we ate grilled corn on the cob from street vendors in the colonnades.

   • 2014, Shani Krebs, Dragons & Butterflies: Sentenced to Die, Choosing to Live, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, →ISBN, page 621:

     Every day I ordered a salad, two corns on the cob, and some vegetable stirfry (which wasn’t too bad, but also had to be rinsed), but the bulk of my meal would be fruit.

Related terms

• corncob

Translations

cooked ears of corn

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Burmese: ပြောင်းဖူးပြုတ် (praung:hpu:prut)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 玉米棒 (yùmǐbàng)

• Czech: vařená kukuřice f
• Dutch: maiskolf (nl) m or f, maïskolf (nl) m or f
• Estonian: maisitõlvik
• Finnish: maissintähkä (fi)
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: Maiskolben (de) m
• Italian: pannocchia bollita f
• Japanese: 玉蜀黍 (ja) (とうもろこし, tōmorokoshi), トウモロコシ (ja) (tōmorokoshi), 蜀黍 (もろこし, morokoshi), モロコシ (morokoshi), 唐黍 (とうきび, tōkibi), トウキビ (tōkibi)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: maiskolbe m

  Nynorsk: maiskolbe m

• Polish: kolba kukurydzy f
• Portuguese: milho cozido, milho na espiga
• Romanian: porumb (ro) m
• Russian: варёная кукуру́за (в поча́тках) f (varjónaja kukurúza (v počátkax))
• Spanish: mazorca (es) f, mazorca de maíz f
• Swedish: majskolv (sv) c
• Tamil: சுட்டச்சோளம் (ta) (cuṭṭaccōḷam)
• Yiddish: פּשעניטשקע f (pshenitshke), קאַטשן קוקורוזע m (katshn kukuruze), קאַטשן m (katshn), פּאַפּשוי אויפֿן קאַטשן m (papshoy oyfn katshn)