is there seriously not a verb for cutting fresh corn kernels off the cob other than "cutting fresh corn kernels off the cob"
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Yes, but it's in Portuguese, the verb is "debulhar"
sep 5, 2025, 2:47 am • 2 0 • view
Create one!
sep 5, 2025, 2:44 am • 1 0 • view
Extreme shucking
sep 5, 2025, 2:23 am • 6 0 • view
Serious answer: stripping. Using a corn stripper. You strip the kernels off.
sep 5, 2025, 2:24 am • 8 0 • view
what if i use a knife which i do
sep 5, 2025, 2:25 am • 2 0 • view
Different tool, same result. Same verb?
sep 5, 2025, 2:27 am • 4 0 • view
Yeah it's stripping the kernels off whatever tool you're using
sep 5, 2025, 2:58 am • 1 0 • view
it's definitely the closest word we have but i still think it's not specific enough. lots of kitchen tasks have ultra specialized vocabulary and i think that task needs its own word
sep 5, 2025, 2:30 am • 3 0 • view
maybe there is one but it's not in english
sep 5, 2025, 2:30 am • 2 0 • view
you know i came comment to suggest native american and i find the root here
sep 5, 2025, 2:51 am • 2 0 • view
Threshing
sep 5, 2025, 2:40 am • 1 0 • view
Maybe this is because corn is a New World food? I feel like if it were native to Europe we'd have a very ancient word for this in English
sep 5, 2025, 2:43 am • 2 0 • view
cornsaw™
sep 5, 2025, 2:44 am • 3 0 • view
We said de-cobbing the corn, or just de-cobbing for short. We always had to de-cob my older brothers corn when we had corn on the cob after he had his front teeth replaced after a pole vaulting accident.
sep 5, 2025, 3:10 am • 3 0 • view
“Degloving the cob”
sep 5, 2025, 10:55 am • 0 0 • view
How about ‘dekernelling’ 😂
sep 5, 2025, 2:26 am • 2 0 • view
There is one but I can’t remember it!
sep 5, 2025, 3:17 am • 1 0 • view
I call it dekerning (for kernels)
sep 5, 2025, 8:30 am • 0 0 • view
Dekernel Kernelectomy
sep 5, 2025, 2:26 am • 5 0 • view
Cob shavin’
sep 5, 2025, 2:21 am • 11 0 • view
I was in charge of this task for my younger brother so for a while it was "cut Kevin's corn" and then "Kev that corn". So I propose kevving for this action.
sep 5, 2025, 5:36 am • 0 0 • view
Degloving
sep 5, 2025, 2:23 am • 6 0 • view
sep 5, 2025, 2:31 am • 5 0 • view
Time to invent a new word. @spindlypete.bsky.social - you get to declare the winning suggestion!
sep 5, 2025, 2:46 am • 1 0 • view
the verb i've seen used is "stripping"
sep 5, 2025, 1:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Oxo says you’re peeling it. That’s dissatisfying.
sep 5, 2025, 2:36 am • 2 0 • view
popping full disclosure i just made that up and it's already taken. in retrospect, that might cause some confusion.
sep 5, 2025, 1:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Cornin'
sep 5, 2025, 2:23 am • 3 0 • view
I call it thuck. It's what you do after you shuck. Helps if you like trains like me.
sep 5, 2025, 2:25 am • 3 0 • view
Is “decob” too on the nose?
sep 5, 2025, 2:23 am • 9 0 • view
I suggest "stiling" i made it up though
sep 5, 2025, 2:22 am • 4 0 • view
Can shelling be used for fresh corn or only dried?
sep 5, 2025, 4:00 am • 1 0 • view
it makes me picture dried anyway
sep 5, 2025, 4:06 am • 1 0 • view