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corn pone
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corn·pone or corn pone  (kôrn pn)
n. Chiefly Southern & Midland U.S.
See johnnycake. See Regional Notes at johnnycake, light bread, pone.
adj. Informal
Folksy and homespun, as in manner or speech: a penchant for cornpone humor; cornpone political prose.
corn pone
n
(Cookery) Southern US corn bread, esp a plain type made with water Sometimes shortened to pone
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