lemon

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A yellow citrus fruit with a sour taste.

   She squeezed a lemon over the fish.

2. 2
   noun

   Something, especially a car, that is faulty and disappointing.

   He didn't realise until he'd paid that the car was a lemon.

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.

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