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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle English lymon, from Old French lymon (“citrus”), from Arabic لَيْمُون (laymūn) or Persian لیمون (limon), from Persian لیمو (limu), from Sanskrit निम्बू (nimbū, “lime”), ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *limaw or Munda.[1] Likely doublet of lime.
The fandom sense is named after the erotic anime series Cream Lemon.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: lĕm'ən, IPA(key): /ˈlɛm.ən/
Audio (London): (file) Audio (New Jersey): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɛmən
- (US)
- (pin–pen merger) IPA(key): /ˈlɪm.ɪn/
Noun
[edit]lemon (plural lemons)
- A yellowish citrus fruit.
- A semitropical evergreen tree, Citrus limon, that bears such fruits.
- A more or less bright shade of yellow associated with lemon fruits.
- lemon flesh:
- lemon rind:
- A lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris).
- (slang) A defective or inadequate item or individual.
- He didn’t realise until he’d paid for it that the car was a lemon.
- 1951, Herman Wouk, chapter 20, in The Caine Mutiny, page 243:
- “ […] the Navy's supposed to give me a ship that goes, and a captain that fights—— That's what all this muck is for, isn't it?”
“Look, it's an old story by now. We're stuck with a lemon. Misfortune of war. […] ”
- (Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from “lemon flavour”) Favor.
- A thousand quid for that motor? Do me a lemon! I could get it for half that.
- (fandom slang) A piece of fanfiction involving explicit sex.
- 2000 May 30, Ian Blakeman, “[Eva][FanFic][Lemon] A day at Misatos appartment[sic]”, in rec.arts.anime.creative[3] (Usenet):
- WARNING: This story is a lemon and must be viewed with great care. If you are either under the age of 18, think graphic sex is discussing[sic] or you know what my writing is like you should turn away now.
- (geometry) The surface of revolution of a circular arc of angle less than 180° rotated about the straight line passing through the arc’s two endpoints.
- Coordinate term: apple
Synonyms
[edit]Alternate forms
[edit]- limon (obsolete)
Hypernyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- acid of lemon
- bitter lemon
- bush lemon (Citrus jhambiri)
- do me a lemon
- easy peasy lemon squeezy
- Ichang lemon (Citrus cavaleriei × Citrus maxima)
- lemonade
- lemon ant (Myrmelachista schumanni)
- lemon balm (Melissa officinalis)
- lemon bar
- lemon basil (Ocimum × citriodorum)
- lemon beebrush (Aloysia citrodora)
- lemon-bellied flycatcher (Microeca flavigaster)
- lemon-bellied flyrobin (Microeca flavigaster)
- lemon-belly
- lemon cheese
- lemon chicken
- lemon chiffon
- lemon chiffon pie
- lemon clover (Oxalis stricta)
- lemon curd
- lemon daylily (Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus var., syn. Hemerocallis flava var.)
- lemon drop
- lemon eucalyptus (Corymbia citriodora)
- lemon geranium (Pelargonium crispum)
- lemongrass, lemon grass (Cymbopogon spp., esp. Cymbopogon citratus)
- lemon juice
- lemon laundering
- lemon law
- lemon lily (Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus var., syn. Hemerocallis flava var.)
- lemon-lime, lemon lime
- lemon meringue
- lemon meringue pie
- lemon myrtle (Backhousia citriodora)
- lemon pepper
- lemon plait
- lemon shark (Microstomus kitt)
- lemon socialism
- lemon soda
- lemon sole (Microstomus kitt)
- lemon square
- lemon squash
- lemon-squeezer
- lemon squeezer
- lemon tea
- lemon thyme (Thymus spp.)
- lemon verbena, lemon vervain (Aloysia citrodora)
- lemon water
- lemony
- lemon yellow
- Meyer lemon (Citrus × meyeri)
- oil of lemon eucalyptus
- Philippine lemon
- ponderosa lemon (Citrus × pyriformis)
- rough lemon (Citrus jhambiri)
- salt of lemon
- sea lemon (Dorididae spp.; Ximenia americana)
- sit there like a lemon
- stand there like a lemon
- suck a lemon
- sweet lemon (Citrus hybrids)
- water lemon (Passiflora laurifolia)
Descendants
[edit]- → Kashubian: lemòna (Canada, United States)
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]citrus fruit
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tree
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defective item
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colour/color
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taste
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Translations to be checked
See also
[edit]Adjective
[edit]lemon (comparative more lemon, superlative most lemon)
- Containing or having the flavour/flavor and/or scent of lemons.
- Of the pale yellow colour/color of lemons.
- (Cockney rhyming slang, from "lemon tart") Smart; cheeky, vocal.
- 2009 October 12, Caitlin Moran, “Why I love paying tax”, in The Times:
- Obviously Emin is not the first public figure to get lemon over tax increases.
Translations
[edit]having the flavour/flavor and/or scent of lemons
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having the colour/color of lemons
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Verb
[edit]lemon (third-person singular simple present lemons, present participle lemoning, simple past and past participle lemoned)
- (transitive) To flavour with lemon.
- You can start the vegetables cooking while you are lemoning the fish.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “lemon”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ Maria Lindgren Leavenworth & Malin Isaksson, Fanged Fan Fiction: Variations on Twilight, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries, page 118
Anagrams
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lemon
- accusative singular of lemo
Welsh
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lemon m (plural lemonau, not mutable)
Related terms
[edit]- lemonêd (“lemonade”)
Western Huasteca Nahuatl
[edit]Noun
[edit]lemon
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