lemon

Plural: lemons

Noun

A yellow citrus fruit; also, a defective product.
yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh
a strong yellow color
a small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit
a distinctive tart flavor characteristic of lemons
an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory
A yellowish citrus fruit.
A semitropical evergreen tree, Citrus limon, that bears such fruits.
A more or less bright shade of yellow associated with lemon fruits.
Lemon juice.
A lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris).
A defective or inadequate item or individual.
Favor.
A piece of fanfiction involving explicit sex.
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.

Adj

Containing or having the flavour/flavor and/or scent of lemons.
Of the pale yellow colour/color of lemons.
Smart; cheeky, vocal.

Verb

To flavour with lemon.

Examples

A thousand quid for that motor? Do me a lemon! I could get it for half that.
He didn’t realise until he’d paid for it that the car was a lemon.
He felt his starting rack was a lemon, with too many vowels and no good consonants.
You can start the vegetables cooking while you are lemoning the fish.

Origin / Etymology

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 doublet of lime.
The fandom sense is named after the erotic anime series Cream Lemon.

Synonyms

Citrus limon, gamboge, lemon tree, lemon yellow, maize, stinker, PWP, bomb, smutfic

Scrabble Score: 7

lemon: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
lemon: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
lemon: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

lemon: valid Words With Friends Word