lemon drop
/ˈlɛmən dɹɑp/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.05 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A cocktail of vodka with lemon juice and sugar.
noun
A variety of mangosteen, especially Garcinia intermedia, or sometimes the similar Garcinia madruno.
Example Sentences
- "Dill had hit upon a foolproof plan to make Boo Radley come out at no cost to ourselves (place a trail of lemon drops from the back door to the front yard and he’d follow it, like an ant)."
- "I remember those times. The corner bodega shops with the quarter waters and yellow lemon drops and the now and later, Do you remember then?"
- "“Honeybee. Sorry. Breakfast beers turned into lunchtime lemon drops, and next thing you know, we were three dinner-tinis deep, and then we saw that stray cat again, so obviously we had to follow it and... Whoa!” “Hey, Wolf. [singsongy] Welcome home. [chuckles]” “I must be drunker than I thought. 'Cause there are two of you and it looks like we're missing an entire wall. Whoa! [grunts] I'm okay. This freezing, extremely hard ice broke my fall.”"
Etymology
Literally lemon + drop. From the combination of lemon (referring to the flavor of the candy) and drop (referring to the shape of the candy, often a small, smooth, oval, or circular shape). The word lemon Inherited from Middle English lymon, from Old French lymon (“citrus”), and the word drop comes from Middle English droppe, Middle English drope (“small quantity of liquid; small amount of something; speck”), from Old English dropa (“a drop”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈlɛmən dɹɑp/
- British English: /ˈlɛmən dɹɒp/