cornflake n.
1. an eccentric; one who stands outside the group norms.
![]() | Current Sl. V:3 5: Cornflake, n. A rustic; an unpopular student. | |
![]() | Rub of the Green 37: ‘Your roommate is a real cornflake, Kendall. [. . . .] He’s a queer one’. |
2. a young male homosexual.
![]() | Queens’ Vernacular 55: cornflakes (kwn Southwest, late ’60s) 1. loveable, big, dumb farm boy. [...] 2. generic for the clean-cut, all-American naive youth. | |
![]() | Maledicta III:2 221: Other terms for the young and more or less innocent are [...] pogue, pretty, tail, twinkie, (bum)boy, chit, cinede (obsolete), cornflake. |