| 释义 |
lemon
noun- a simple-minded fool US, 1906
- Don’t I look a lemon in these clothes[?] — Ian Dury, Pardon, 1980
- — Maledicta, p. 265, Summer/Winter 1981: “By its slang, ye shall know it: the pessimism of prison life”
- I wouldn’t invite Terry Duckers, y’lemon. — Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash, The Royle Family, 1999
- in used-car sales, a mechanically unsound vehicle, or one with a dubious history UK
- — South Wales Argus, 6 May 2005
- anything or anyone that is undesirable US, 1906
Probably from the least valuable symbol on a fruit-machine. - [S]he was wearing a silky white blouse underneath and showing a lot of neck. Giner gulped. And the other one wasn’t a lemon either. — John Burke and Stuart Douglass, The Boys, p. 118, 1962
- in marketing, a woman who lives alone and is unlikely to be interested in financial sector products UK
Fruit-machine imagery, informed by the previous sense; the complete opposite is a PLUM - — David Rowan, Glossary for the 90s, p. 106, 1998
- a lesbian AUSTRALIA
Perhaps playing on FRUIT. - “Eergh, a lemon,” shouts one six foot tall metal tipped booted mod at a diminutive feminist. — Sydney Morning Herald, p. 25, 1 January 1983
- a heavily diluted narcotic US
- He handed me a lemon and I went looking for him. There wasn’t nothing in the stuff but sugar[.] — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, pp. 150–151, 1952
- Then he walks off with two bags of junk and the money, and I got two empty bags–two lemons in my pocket! — John Gimenez, Up Tight!, p. 52, 1967
- You the fourth cat who been in here lookin’ for that stud. He sellin’ lemons again? — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 117, 1968
- “Six pushers with the weakest bags in Harlem,” Jackie said bitterly. “They might as well be lemons.” — Robert Deane Pharr, S.R.O., p. 346, 1971
- a woman’s pubic hair, hence the vagina UK, 1976
- in pool, a person who loses intentionally US
- — Steve Rushin, Pool Cool, p. 19, 1990
- a light-skinned black person US
- — Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang, p. 76, 1970
▶ up the lemon; up the lemon puff
pregnant UK
Rhyming slang for UP THE DUFF[W]asn’t Mary already married, when God came along and got her up the lemon? — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 13, 2001 |