cornfest

English

Etymology

From corn +‎ -fest.

Noun

cornfest (plural cornfests)

  1. (US) A festival celebrating the harvesting of a corn crop.
    • 1982, America's Wildlife Sampler, page 138:
      Greater sandhill cranes take wing after a cornfest near the Rio Grande.
    • 1996, William P. Everts, Stockwell of Minneapolis: A Pioneer of Social and Political Conscience:
      The cornfests later attracted as many as two hundred families, who came on the day the corn ripened to perfection.
  2. (US, slang) Something very corny.
    That old movie was a total cornfest.
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