corn-flakey

See also: cornflakey

English

Etymology

From corn flake +‎ -y.

Adjective

corn-flakey (comparative more corn-flakey, superlative most corn-flakey)

1. Alternative form of cornflakey.
   • 2000 December 13, Al Cook, “Early winter offers beauty to visitors at Dawes”, in The Advocate, Newark, Oh., page 4D, column 3:

     Lacebark pine is more mysterious, flaking dark bark revealing patches of chalky white. But enough prose — you must come see tree barks, ghostly beech and checkered tupelo, corn-flakey wild cherry, striated franklinia, and dozens more.

   • 2001, L[ester] Neil Smith, “A Rant for All Seasons”, in Lever Action: Essays on Liberty, Las Vegas, Nev.: Mountain Media, →ISBN, page 341:

     Today’s captains of the fast-food industry are no more contented simply to make billions of bucks than their corn-flakey predecessors were.

   • 2009, Robyn O’Brien with Rachel Kranz, The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick—and What We Can Do About It, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 253:

     Opt Out / conventional corn-flakey cereal, since it likely contains GM corn

   • 2017, Kate Fuglei, “Funeral Casserole”, in Claire LaZebnik, Ann Brown, editors, SisterWriterEaters, Santa Monica, Calif.: Griffith Moon, →ISBN, pages 138–139:

     They had spied the telltale silver pan of leftover funeral casserole on the kitchen table and were salivating at the thought of its ground beefy-cheesy-corn-flakey goodness. […] I put wax paper over mounds of corn flakes and crushed them with a thick encyclopedia, and, as we sprinkled the crunchy topping over the casserole, we sang along to “Edelweiss.”