melonious

Relating to melons.

Adjective humorous

  1. Relating to melons.
    • 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...
    • 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...
  2. Resembling or having the characteristics of a melon.
    • The Missouri melon, to put it briefly, is the most melonious of melons. - 1920 August 10, “The Missouri Watermelon”, in Sikeston Standard, page 2:
    • 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...
    • 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. - 2007,...
  3. Curvaceous.
    • 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. - 1987, Thomas B. Morgan,...
    • “But what about all those women? That awful woman with a bottom you said was melonious?” - 1987, Henrietta Garnett, Family Skeletons, page 26:
    • 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. - 2004, Carole Matthews, The Sweetest Taboo, page...

    1. (of body parts, especially breasts) Very large.

    2. (of a woman) Very buxom; having large breasts.

      • 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...

Origin

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

Forms

more melonious most melonious

Synonyms

melonous melony

Adjective humorous, nonstandard

  1. Melodious.
    • 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...
    • Tilly. 'Rastus, am it yer melonious voice dat speaks dese words? - 1888, Henry H. Putnam, The Mariner’s Return, Act II, page 14:

Origin

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

Forms

more melonious most melonious