lemon

noun lemons · limon

1. countable, usually A yellowish citrus fruit. The juice of Lemmons killeth Warts, but better the water of the ſame juice, diſtilled through a glaſs.
2. countable, usually A semitropical evergreen tree, Citrus limon, that bears such fruits.
3. countable, usually A more or less bright shade of yellow associated with lemon fruits.
4. rare, uncountable, usually 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, […]
5. countable, usually A lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris).
6. countable, slang, usually A defective or inadequate item or individual. He didn’t realise until he’d paid for it that the car was a lemon.

   Similar: bomb

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

   Similar: PWP, smutfic

9. countable, usually 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.

Similar: lemon yellow

adjective more lemon · most lemon

1. Containing or having the flavour/flavor and/or scent of lemons.
2. Of the pale yellow colour/color of lemons.
3. Cockney, slang, from "lemon tart" Smart; cheeky, vocal. Obviously Emin is not the first public figure to get lemon over tax increases.

verb lemons · lemoning · lemoned

1. transitive To flavour with lemon. You can start the vegetables cooking while you are lemoning the fish.

proper noun Lemons · Lemmond

1. countable, uncountable A surname.
2. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in McLean County, Kentucky, United States.
3. countable, uncountable A minor river in Devon, England, which joins the River Teign at Newton Abbot.