/ˈʌn.jən/, /ˈʌn.jɪn/, /ˈʌŋ.jɪn/
OriginFrom Middle English onyoun, oynoun, from Old French oignon, from Latin ūniōnem, accusative of ūniō (“onion”), which had also been borrowed into Old English as yne, ynnelēac (“onion”) (> Middle English hynne-leac, henne-leac). Also displaced Middle English knelek (literally “knee-leek”) and the inherited term ramsons.
* (soy): Stems from a 4chan word filter which changes the word soy to onions. The word filter was implemented in relation to the "alpha onion eater" meme, which is depicted as the direct opposite of the soy boy.
- A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
“Some of the weeds that cause an undesirable flavor in milk are: onion, tarweed, scaleweed, garlic, mustard, pepper grass.”
“To get started, how about creating an edible window box? Sowed in the spring, salad seeds like radish, lettuce and spring onion will germinate so quickly that you'll be harvesting a crop in a month or”
- The bulb of such a plant.
“My eyes are stinging from the chopped onions.”
“Among the ancient Greeks, onions are most frequently mentioned as a stimulus to sexual desire.”
“dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. […] cook. glazed with a yellow substance; pome(s ~, sopes ~. […] 1381 Pegge Cook. Recipes p. 114: For to make Soupys dorry. Nym onyons […] Nym wyn […] toste wyte bred and do yt ”
- Any of various plants, mostly of the genus Allium, that are more or less similar to Allium cepa.
“Many onions are delicious; domesticated onions such as Allium cepa and Allium fistulosum are especially good, but even wild onions such as Allium canadense and Allium validum are nice in small doses.”
- slangOf a drug, an ounce.
- obsolete, slangA ball.
- obsolete, slangA watch-seal.
“[…] M was a Magsman, frequenting Pall-Mall; / N was a Nose that turned chirp on his pal; / O was an Onion, possessed by a swell; / P was a Pannie, done niblike and well. […]”
- alt-ofAlternative letter-case form of Onion (“an inhabitant of Bermuda; a Bermudian”).
- slangSoy, particularly when used in compound words related to the soy boy stereotype.
- slangAn inhabitant of Bermuda; a Bermudian.
Formsonions(plural) · onyon(alternative, obsolete) · Onions(plural) · onion(alternative)