onion.
A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
Meaning & usage
A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
The bulb of such a plant.
My eyes are stinging from the chopped onions.
Any of various plants, mostly of the genus Allium, that are more or less similar to Allium cepa.
Many onions are delicious; domesticated onions such as Allium cepa and Allium fistulosum are especially good, but even wild onions such as Allium canadense and Allium validum are nice in small doses.
Of a drug, an ounce.
A ball.
A watch-seal.
Alternative letter-case form of Onion (“an inhabitant of Bermuda; a Bermudian”).
Soy, particularly when used in compound words related to the soy boy stereotype.
Ellipsis of flaming onion; anti-aircraft fire.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English onyoun, oynoun, from Old French oignon, from Latin ūniōnem, accusative of ūniō (“onion”), which had also been borrowed into Old English as yne, ynnelēac (“onion”) (> Middle English hynne-leac, henne-leac). Displaced the inherited term ramsons. * (soy): Stems from a 4chan word filter which changes the word soy to onions. The word filter was implemented in relation to the "alpha onion eater" meme, which is depicted as the direct opposite of the soy boy.
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