cornflakes

or corn flakes

[ kawrn-fleyks ]

noun

, (used with a plural verb)

1. a packaged breakfast cereal in the form of small toasted flakes made from corn, for serving cold with milk, sugar, etc.

cornflakes

/ ˈkɔːnˌfleɪks /

plural noun

1. a breakfast cereal made from toasted maize, eaten with milk, sugar, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of cornflakes¹

1905–10, Americanism; corn ¹ + flakes, plural of flake ¹

Example Sentences

Having realised there were no cornflakes for breakfast the next day, at 22:00 GMT on 7 November Lindsay had walked less than a mile to the Spar on Crown Street.

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In her pocket, the exact change from the cornflakes she had bought.

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In the event, viewers were not ready for a heavyweight agenda over their cornflakes, much preferring the BBC's lighter magazine style of programme.

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Throughout the ordeal, Marcela faithfully took a food parcel each week to the Izalco prison where her son was housed – a plastic bag filled with “cornflakes, oatmeal, bread and cookies”, she said, to help sustain José Duval beyond his meagre prison rations.

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Kellogg's is recalling boxes of its chocolate cornflakes following complaints of hard lumps in the cereal which could create a choking hazard.

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