ONION
ADJECTIVES
► ONIONIZED flavoured with or smelling of onions → 1830
NOUNS
► BUTTONS onion sets → 1897 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► CARTILAGE the coats or skin of an onion → 1563 obs.
► COURTING APPLE an onion → 1976 Amer. dial., jocular usage
► FAVEREL an onion → 1597
► GARDEN VIOLET an onion → L19 sl.
► INGAN ► INGUN an onion → 1818 Sc.
► INGERN an onion → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► IRE an onion → 1825 Eng. dial.
► IRISH PLUM an onion → 1941 Amer. dial. jocular usage
► JACOB’S ONION a green onion → 1975 Amer. dial.
► ONIONET a small onion → 1820
► POOR MAN’S TREACLE an onion → L19 colloq.
► RARERIPE an onion → 1790 Amer. dial.
► REEVE a rope of onions → 1895 Eng. dial.
► REID a rope of onions → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SKUNK EGGS onions → 1945 US Western sl. (Bk.)
► TAILS onion leaves→ 1896 Sc.
► VIOLET an onion → L19 sl.
NOUNS – PERSON
► INGAN JOHNNIE an itinerant onion-seller → 19C Sc.
VERBS
► REESE ► WREASE to rope onions → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
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