acorn

IPA: ˈeɪkɔrn

The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
(nautical) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
(zoology) See acorn-shell.
The glans penis.
(slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.

Examples of "acorn" in Sentences

No one from acorn is in jail or was even arrested.
I'm sure acorn is tied in as well as the other fringe groups. jaye
But it also makes sense; as a Pre-Plant, an acorn is like an egg, sort of.
Oh sorry, you can only vote twice in Chicago, when acorn is involved and when it is a liberal ...
Unless acorn is saying “opps we should not have fired them” in that case, restore their employment, and give um back pay.
Erroneous as it may be, the substitution involved more than just ignorance: an acorn is more or less shaped like an egg; and it is a seed, just like grains of corn.
Some of us, however, see biology as an unfolding of one or a few initial designs, designed to grow into the tree of life as an acorn is designed to grow into an oak.
One of the highlights of the session was a spirited exchange between the University of Minnesota's Michael Stokes Paulsen and my colleage Jed Rubenfeld on the status of the fetus -- or, as they put it, over whether an acorn is an oak tree.
Since then the eggcorn has become something of a mascot at Language Log; today Mark discusses it further, giving the example "hand few" used for handful and quoting Geoff Pullum to the effect that "eggcorns are tiny little poems, a symptom of human intelligence and creativity," and ends with an Update mentioning a fact I should have recalled myself: the word acorn itself contains an earlier misunderstanding.