cornflaky

See also: corn-flaky

English

Adjective

cornflaky (comparative more cornflaky, superlative most cornflaky)

1. Alternative form of cornflakey.
   • 1969, Osmington Mills [pseudonym; Vivian Collin Brooks], Many a Slip, London: Geoffrey Bles Ltd, →ISBN, page 131:

     “Does anyone want a lift?” / “Now immediately?” Sunniva, spooning up cornflakes, objected, “I haven’t started breakfast yet.” / “You should get up earlier,” her father suggested, not for the first time. She put out her cornflaky tongue and he allowed her, “Perhaps I can hang on a few more minutes.”

   • 1969 December 29, Jim Klobuchar, “Jim Klobuchar”, in The Minneapolis Star, volume XCII, number 29, Minneapolis, Minn.: Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company, page 1 C:

     It may be sticky and faintly cornflaky, but a kind of hard-knuckled, hairy-chested love DOES grow up among them, on a hundred plane flights, in the grind and sweat of the training camp.

   • 1970, Walter Winward, chapter 14, in A Cat with Cream, London: Pan Books Ltd, published 1972, →ISBN, page 114:

     At home, breakfast was the best time of the day, while I was working. It was best because it wasn’t cornflaky or eggy or telly-adverty.

   • 1990, Vivian French, “Dollie May”, in Zenobia and Mouse, London: Walker Books, published 1997, →ISBN, page 7:

     Zenobia finished her mouthful of cornflakes and put down her spoon. […] Zenobia made a face at Dollie May and picked up her spoon again. […] “It was a very NOISY dream,” said Zenobia, in a cornflaky voice.

   • 2009, A[lison] L[ouise] Kennedy, What Becomes, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, pages 147–148:

     And this is where the dentist gives me more anaesthetic and I notice his hands smell a little like cornflakes – his gloves, they have this cornflaky scent – which is a detail that makes him seem credible and not simply a nightmare.