lemon

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A yellowish citrus fruit.

   The juice of Lemmons killeth Warts, but better the water of the ſame juice, diſtilled through a glaſs.

2. 2
   noun

   Lemon juice.

   [J]uſt at the laſt ſcald four or five ſpoonfuls of thick new cream, with a few drops of lemon or vinegar, muſhrooms pickled do well, […]

3. 3
   noun

   A defective or inadequate item or individual.

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

4. 4
   noun

   Favor.

   A thousand quid for that motor? Do me a lemon! I could get it for half that.

5. 5
   noun

   A piece of fanfiction involving explicit sex.

   I'd really like to know what people think of this and whether I should carry on writing lemons or go and hide under a rock somewhere.

6. 6
   adj

   Smart; cheeky, vocal.

   Obviously Emin is not the first public figure to get lemon over tax increases.

7. 7
   verb

   To flavour with lemon.

   You can start the vegetables cooking while you are lemoning the fish.

8. 8
   noun

   an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory

Etymology

Etymology tree Arabic ليمونbor. Old French lymonbor. Middle English lymon English lemon 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. Likely a doublet of lime. The fandom sense is named after the erotic anime series Cream Lemon.