Pronunciations (4)
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/mɛˈləʊni.əs/
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- Received-Pronunciation
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/mɛˈloʊni.əs/
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- General-American
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/məˈləʊni.əs/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/məˈloʊni.əs/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
Adjective
Relating to melons.
Usage- Humorous
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Besides the regular dividends the neat and interesting job of occasionally carving a surplus sandilla is performed, and the metallic chink of the resulting proceeds in the stockholder’s pocket gives forth a highly melonious sound.
An epidemic of watermelons broke out in Hollywood early yesterday morning. Ten minutes after the melonious assault began the city was freckled with seeds, slippery with shattered rind and literally adrip with the heart’s blood of dozens of huge, over-ripe melons, ammunition which a large-size patch on the outskirts of town had been literally stripped to secure.
Resembling or having the characteristics of a melon.
Usage- Humorous
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The Missouri melon, to put it briefly, is the most melonious of melons.
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Only then do I begin to grow a bit drowsy beneath a rain of garden produce, flowers, green vegetables, fruits of every sort, golden oranges, melodious melons, melonious melodies, seeds without equal, marvels of harvests.
The Cheese. Shot the breeze. Exchanged unpleasant pleasantries. Said The Severants were right. Hand-to-God, with a knowing nod. Of his giant pumpkinish. Melonious head. His bum tickler. Had him getting sicker.
Curvaceous. Very large.
Usage- UK usage
- broadly
- euphemistic
- Humorous
- of body parts
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Only occasionally, jacketless in her customary brown or gray silk blouse and ramrod straight in her typing chair, did she reveal superb melonious breasts cantilevered over a trim waist.
“But what about all those women? That awful woman with a bottom you said was melonious?”
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She is clearly taking in my visible panty line, lack of melonious chest and bottom like a bagful of walnuts. I knew I would hate this bloody place the minute I arrived.
Or do you reconsider at, say, 65? Then you weigh up having melonious gazongas that seem to belong to a much younger lady against, I’m guessing, sad, empty bags of skin. (Or by then will you have had your face done to match your boobs?)
Curvaceous. Very buxom; having large breasts.
Usage- UK usage
- broadly
- euphemistic
- Humorous
- of a woman
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I have had several letters of complaint from the Haringey Women’s Lesbian Kalashnikov Training and Mouth Painting Centre saying that this column has been prejudiced in favour of girls with enormous breasts to the detriment of their less melonious sisters.
Adjective
Melodious.
Usage- Humorous
- nonstandard
- Rare
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KEATING’S COUGH LOZENGES.—A good speech or an effective song cannot be given if the vocal organs are in an unsound condition, or affected with hoarseness or irritation. To remedy the latter, and to produce melonious enunciation, every public character, whether of the Bar, the Senate, or the Pulpit, should have at hand Keating’s Cough Lozenges, which are patronised by the majority of the Imperial Parliament, the Bench, and the leading members of the Operatic Corps.
Tilly. 'Rastus, am it yer melonious voice dat speaks dese words?