onion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌn.jən/
ipa: /ˈʌn.jɪn/
ipa: /ˈʌŋ.jɪn/
ipa: /ˈɐn.jən/
ipa: /ˈɐŋ.jən/
ipa: /ˈan.jən/
ipa: /ˈaŋ.jən/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɔnɪjən/
ipa: /ˈɪŋ.ən/
ipa: /ˈɪn.jən/
rhymes: -ʌnjən
Forms: form: onions
form: onyon
Etymology: From 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.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the weeds that cause an undesirable flavor in milk are: onion, tarweed, scaleweed, garlic, mustard, pepper grass.
ref: 1944, Oregon. Agricultural experiment station, Circular of Information - Issues 323-395, page 3:
text: 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 two.
ref: 2021, Rose Ray, Caro Langton, Into Green: Everyday Ways to Find and Lose Yourself in Nature, page 62:
coordinate_terms: wild onion
spring onion
glosses: A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
examples: text: My eyes are stinging from the chopped onions.
text: Among the ancient Greeks, onions are most frequently mentioned as a stimulus to sexual desire.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 158:
text: 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 in dischis, and god Almande mylk.
ref: 1962 (quoting 1381 text), Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242
text: Goulash, a local favorite, was brought up-to-date with seared grass-fed rib-eye, stewed cippolini onions and roasted cherry tomatoes.
ref: 2015 September 4, “In Minnesota’s Iron Range, Midwestern With a Modern Twist”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The bulb of such a plant.
examples: text: 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.
glosses: Any of various plants, mostly of the genus Allium, that are more or less similar to Allium cepa.
glosses: An ounce.
raw_tags: of a drug
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A ball.
examples: text: […] 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. […]
ref: 1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, page 60:
glosses: A watch-seal.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Onion (“an inhabitant of Bermuda; a Bermudian”).
qualifier: 4chan slang
glosses: Soy, particularly when used in compound words related to the soy boy stereotype.
Synonyms: topics: vegetable
food
lifestyle
word: violet
Derived terms: taxonomic: Allium stellatum
word: autumn onion
word: baby onion
word: ball-head onion
word: Bangalore rose onion
word: Bermuda onion
word: blooming onion
word: bog onion
taxonomic: Allium sphaerocephalon
word: Bristol onion
word: brown onion
word: bucky onion
word: buckyonion
taxonomic: Allium cepa
word: bulb onion
word: bulge in the onion bag
word: bulge the onion bag
taxonomic: Allium fistulosum
word: bunching onion
word: button onion
taxonomic: Allium canadense
word: Canada onion
taxonomic: Ornithoglossum glaucum
word: Cape poison onion
word: Chinese onion
word: cipolline onion
word: climbing onion Bowiea volubilis)
taxonomic: Allium falcifolium
word: coast flatleaf onion
word: cocktail onion
taxonomic: Allium cepa
word: common onion
taxonomic: Allium vineale
word: crow onion
word: desert onion
word: dry onion
word: eat the onion
taxonomic: Allium × proliferum
alt: syn. Allium cepa var. viviparum
word: Egyptian onion
word: flaming onion
taxonomic: Allium neopolitanum
word: flowering onion
word: French onion soup
word: garlion
word: glass onion
word: green onion
word: Hooker's onion (Allium acuminatum
word: is someone cutting onions
taxonomic: Allium fistulosum
word: Japanese bunching onion
taxonomic: Allium serra
word: jeweled onion
word: know one's onions
taxonomic: Allium fistulosum
word: long green onion
word: long onion
word: Maori onion
taxonomic: Allium cepa var. aggregatum
word: multiplier onion
taxonomic: Allium cernuum
word: nodding onion
word: off one's onion
word: Oklahoma onion burger
taxonomic: Allium unifolium
word: one-leaf onion
word: onion bag
word: onion booty
word: onion bottle
word: onion bread
word: onion couch
word: onion dome
taxonomic: Peronospora destructor
word: onion downy mildew
word: onioned
taxonomic: Ditylenchus dipsaci
word: onion eelworm
word: onion fish
word: onion flute
taxonomic: Delia antiqua
word: onion fly
taxonomic: Allium vineale
word: onion grass
word: onionin A
word: onionized
word: onion Johnny
word: Onionland
word: onionless
word: onionlike
taxonomic: Thrips tabaci
word: onion louse
taxonomic: Delia antiqua
word: onion maggot
word: onion mildew
word: onion network
word: onion paper
taxonomic: Leveillula taurica
word: onion powdery mildew
word: onion red
word: onion ring
word: onion roll
word: onion router
word: onion routing
taxonomic: Colletotrichum circinans
word: onion scab
word: onion seed
word: onion service
word: onion skin
word: onionskin
word: onion-skinned
word: onion skinning
taxonomic: Colletotrichum circinans
word: onion smudge
alt: Urocystis cepulae
word: onion smut
word: onion snow
word: onion squash
word: onion stick
word: onion straw
taxonomic: Thrips tabaci
word: onion thrips
word: onionweed
alt: Nuthoscordum inodorum
word: onion weed
word: oniony
word: Onion yellow dwarf virus
taxonomic: Allium validum
word: Pacific mountain onion
taxonomic: Allium validum
word: Pacific onion
word: pearl onion
word: peel back the onion
word: peel the onion
taxonomic: Allium serra
word: pom-pom onion
taxonomic: Allium cepa var. aggregatum
word: potato onion
taxonomic: Allium stellatum
word: prairie onion
word: purple onion
word: quantum onion
word: red onion
taxonomic: Allium haematochiton
word: red-skinned onion
taxonomic: Allium haematochiton
word: redskin onion
taxonomic: Allium fistulosum
word: salad onion
taxonomic: Allium falcifolium
word: scytheleaf onion
alt: Urginea maritima
word: sea onion
taxonomic: Allium serra
word: serrated onion
taxonomic: Allium schoenoprasum
word: shore onion
word: Siberian onion
word: silverskin onion
word: Spanish onion
taxonomic: Allium fistulosum
word: spring onion
word: spunion
taxonomic: Allium validum
word: swamp onion
word: sweet onion
word: table onion
word: take out an onion
taxonomic: Allium acuminatum
word: tapertip onion
taxonomic: Allium × proliferum
alt: syn. Allium cepa var. viviparum
word: topset onion
taxonomic: Allium × proliferum
alt: syn. Allium cepa var. viviparum
word: tree onion
taxonomic: Allium bisceptrum
word: twincrest onion
word: Vidalia onion
word: walking onion
taxonomic: Allium × proliferum
word: walking onoin
taxonomic: Allium fistulosum
word: Welsh onion
word: white onion
word: wild onion
word: winter onion
word: yard onion
word: yellow onion
Related terms: chive
scallion
shallot