lemon

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

1680, T. K., The Kitchin-Phyſician; Or, a Guide for Good-Housewives in Maintaining Their Families in Health. […] , How to take away Warts off the Face or Hands, page 14:

A semitropical evergreen tree, Citrus limon, that bears such fruits.

lemon flesh:

lemon rind:

A more or less bright shade of yellow associated with lemon fruits.

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

“[…]the Navy's supposed to give me a ship that goes, and a captain that fights—— That's what all this muck is for, isn't it?”
 “Look, it's an old story by now. We're stuck with a lemon. Misfortune of war.[…]”

1951, Herman Wouk, chapter 20, in The Caine Mutiny, page 243:

(slang) A defective or inadequate item or individual.

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

Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang

(Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from “lemon flavour”) Favor.

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.

1997 April 18, Neko, “[Dominion][FanFic][Lemon] A Typical Night at the Station”, in rec.arts.anime.creative (Usenet):

WARNING: This story is a lemon and must be viewed with great care. If you are either under the age of 18, think graphic sex is discussing^([sic]) or you know what my writing is like you should turn away now.

2000 May 30, Ian Blakeman, “[Eva][FanFic][Lemon] A day at Misatos appartment^([sic])”, in rec.arts.anime.creative (Usenet):

This won't be a lemon simply because I can't see myself writing anything like that.

2002 November 10, Goku Girl, “[DBZ][FanFic][Yaoi] Saiya-jin no Suto-ri Ichi (part one)”, in rec.arts.anime.creative (Usenet):

(fandom slang) A piece of fanfiction involving explicit sex.

Coordinate term: apple

surface of revolution
surface of revolution

(geometry) 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.

desc

→ Kashubian: lemòna (Canada, United States)

Cream Lemon
Lemon
Lemon (color)
Lemon (geometry)

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.


lemon

Containing or having the flavour/flavor and/or scent of lemons.

Of the pale yellow colour/color of lemons.

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

2009 October 12, Caitlin Moran, “Why I love paying tax”, in The Times:

(Cockney rhyming slang, from "lemon tart") Smart; cheeky, vocal.

en-adj

lemon (comparative more lemon, superlative most lemon)

more lemon (comparative)
most lemon (superlative)


lemon

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

en-verb

lemon (third-person singular simple present lemons, present participle lemoning, simple past and past participle lemoned)

lemons (present singular third-person)
lemoning (participle present)
lemoned (participle past)
lemoned (past)