{"senses": [{"examples": [{"text": "These were nearly all Yankees, regarded by the Southern people as a trafficking, tricky set, ready to sell a wooden nutmeg or any other sham. They, in turn, looked on the Kentuckians as a lazy, shiftless class, subsisting on hog, hominy and corn-bread, and willing tools in their hands.", "ref": "1879, William Henry Perrin, Albert Adams Graham, D. M. Blair, editors, The History of Coles County, Illinois, page 343:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[241, 251]]}, {"text": "\"Jim, this is nice,\" I says. \"I wouldn't want to be nowhere else but here. Pass me along another hunk of fish and some hot corn-bread.\"", "ref": "1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter IX, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 75:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[123, 133]]}, {"text": "The enormous roe, like a sheet of golden corn-bread, is delicious, however, either as an hors d’oeuvre or with the fish, […]", "ref": "1943 May, Leslie Prince Thompson, “‘Carpe Diem’”, in The Atlantic Monthly, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2026:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[41, 51]]}], "categories": ["English countable nouns", "English dated forms", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English terms with quotations", "English uncountable nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries"], "links": [["cornbread", "cornbread#English"]], "glosses": ["Dated form of cornbread."], "tags": ["alt-of", "countable", "dated", "uncountable"], "alt_of": [{"word": "cornbread"}]}], "pos": "noun", "head_templates": [{"name": "en-noun", "args": {"1": "~"}, "expansion": "corn-bread (countable and uncountable, plural corn-breads)"}], "forms": [{"form": "corn-breads", "tags": ["plural"]}], "word": "corn-bread", "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en"}