Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
An Englishman or other Briton, or a person of British descent; an English or British immigrant. · An English or British ship.
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryResembling limes (the fruit); lime-like. · Of, or pertaining to, limes (the fruit).
In adjectival senses, by surface analysis, lime + -y. In the sense of Englishman, reduced from the 19th century term lime-juicer (“a British ship”), from the lime juice British ships carried to ward off scurvy.
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