1843. John S. Robb. ‘The Standing Candidate.’ ‘Ef you war a babby,
just new born, ’Twould do you good this juicy corn!’
To acknowledge the corn, phr. (American).—See Acknowledge, and the
following quote:
1846. New York Herald, 27 June. The Evening Mirror very naïvely
comes out and acknowledges the corn, admits that a demand was made,
etc.
Corned, ppl. adj. (common).—1. Drunk. [Hotten: ‘possibly from soaking
or pickling oneself like salt-beef.’ Barrère: ‘almost beyond doubt ...
an Americanism from corn, a very common name for whisky.’ Both are
wrong; the verb ‘to corn’ is a common provincialism and Scotticism
signifying ‘to be drunk.’] For synonyms, see Screwed.
1785. Grose, Dict. Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1808. Jamieson, Etymolog. Dict. Scottish Lang. The lads are weel
corned.
1835. Haliburton, The Clockmaker, p. 257 (ed. 1862). ‘I was pretty
well corned thet arternoon, but still I knew what I was about.’