Melonious

//mɛˈləʊni.əs// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Relating to melons. humorous

    "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."

  2. 2
    Melodious. humorous, nonstandard, rare

    "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."

  3. 3
    Resembling or having the characteristics of a melon. humorous

    "The Missouri melon, to put it briefly, is the most melonious of melons."

  4. 4
    Curvaceous.; Very large. UK, broadly, euphemistic, humorous

    "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."

  5. 5
    Curvaceous.; Very buxom; having large breasts. UK, broadly, euphemistic, humorous

    "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."

Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From melon + -ious, likely as a pun on melodious.

Etymology 2

Likely from a misconstruction of melodious, under influence from other Latinate adjectives ending -onious; compare commonious.

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