melons
- 1Plural of melon.
Farmers stacked the melons in pyramids beside the road.
Melons need warm nights and plenty of water to sweeten.
Note
The -s is regular, and it gathers the fruits of several different plants under one word: cantaloupe and honeydew, the horned melon, the watermelon and its relatives. The plural belongs to the countable uses, meaning whole fruits or the plants in a field. The same form also carries the slang word for breasts, which exists only in the plural, so the fruit and the body meet in one spelling.
- 2A woman's breasts.
The tabloid ran a leering headline about the actress's melons.
Locker-room talk about melons was exactly the culture the new coach wanted gone.
Similarbreasts, boobs, jugs, knockers
Note
Slang that borrows its picture from the fruit: something large and round. It lives only in the plural, so a single breast is never "a melon." The tone is crude and objectifying, and it is usually used at a woman's expense. Recognize it in casual or leering talk, but in neutral or respectful writing use breasts instead.
melons is a form of melon
melon, noun: A large, round to oval fruit with a rind, borne by certain plants of the gourd family. Full entry
- Forms
- melonmelons plural
- Spelling
- melon → melons: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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