limey

Meanings

Adjective

Resembling limes (the fruit); lime-like.
Of, or pertaining to, limes (the fruit).

Noun

An Englishman or other Briton, or a person of British descent.

Related

Similar words

pommy , pom

Origin

lime + -y. In the sense of "Englishman", from 18th- and 19th-century British sailors drinking lime juice to ward off scurvy.

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