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lemon.

A yellowish citrus fruit.

5 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈlɛmən//ˈlɛmɪn//ˈlɪmɪn/pin-pen-merger

  1. A yellowish citrus fruit.

    countable · usually

  2. A semitropical evergreen tree, Citrus limon, that bears such fruits.

    countable · usually

  3. A more or less bright shade of yellow associated with lemon fruits.

    countable · usually

  4. Lemon juice.

    rare · uncountable · usually

  5. A lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris).

    countable · usually

  6. A defective or inadequate item or individual.

    countable · slang · usually
    He didn’t realise until he’d paid for it that the car was a lemon.

  7. Favor.

    Cockney · countable · slang · usually
    A thousand quid for that motor? Do me a lemon! I could get it for half that.

  8. A piece of fanfiction involving explicit sex.

    countable · slang · usually

  9. 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.

    countable · usually
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle English lymon, from Old French lymon (“citrus”), from Arabic لَيْمُون (laymūn) or Classical Persian لِیمُون (līmūn), a variant of Classical Persian لِیمُو (līmū, līmō), from Sanskrit निम्बू (nimbū, “lime”), ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *limaw or Munda. Doublet of lime. The fandom sense is named after the erotic anime series Cream Lemon.

adj/ˈlɛmən//ˈlɛmɪn//ˈlɪmɪn/pin-pen-merger

  1. Containing or having the flavour/flavor and/or scent of lemons.

  2. Of the pale yellow colour/color of lemons.

  3. Smart; cheeky, vocal.

    Cockney · slang
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle English lymon, from Old French lymon (“citrus”), from Arabic لَيْمُون (laymūn) or Classical Persian لِیمُون (līmūn), a variant of Classical Persian لِیمُو (līmū, līmō), from Sanskrit निम्बू (nimbū, “lime”), ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *limaw or Munda. Doublet of lime. The fandom sense is named after the erotic anime series Cream Lemon.

verb/ˈlɛmən//ˈlɛmɪn//ˈlɪmɪn/pin-pen-merger

  1. To flavour with lemon.

    transitive
    You can start the vegetables cooking while you are lemoning the fish.
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle English lymon, from Old French lymon (“citrus”), from Arabic لَيْمُون (laymūn) or Classical Persian لِیمُون (līmūn), a variant of Classical Persian لِیمُو (līmū, līmō), from Sanskrit निम्बू (nimbū, “lime”), ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *limaw or Munda. Doublet of lime. The fandom sense is named after the erotic anime series Cream Lemon.

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