lemonadey

English

Etymology

From lemonade +‎ -y.

Adjective

lemonadey (comparative more lemonadey, superlative most lemonadey)

1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of lemonade.
   • 1973, Barry Broadfoot, Ten Lost Years, 1929-1939: Memories of the Canadians Who Survived the Depression, Doubleday Canada, →ISBN, page 22:

     Lemonade. That was it. My wife and I figured that one out. Cold and as lemonadey as we could get it, and we had to get it to the people where they wanted it and that, obviously, was where people were concentrated.

   • 1997, Anne Lamott, Crooked Little Heart, Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 145:

     It was not until she’d finished the second can that she remembered that this lemonadey clear yellow soda was actually full of caffeine, and she closed her eyes, knowing that another night of despair lay ahead.

   • 2000, Libby Purves, Nature’s Masterpiece: A Family Survival Book, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN:

     And on top of all this, a cynical drinks industry is forever bringing out lovely, sweet, lemonadey, fizzy, harmless-looking alcopops to tempt this market, even though they pretend aloud that it is really adults they are after.

   • 2015, Robert Correll, Photo Restoration: From Snapshots to Great Shots, Peachpit Press, →ISBN:

     I love a good glass of lemonade (and pecan pie, hamburgers, bread and butter pickles, and my mom’s spaghetti sauce; but those are other stories). My favorite kind is the type you get from county fairs. It’s freshly squeezed and deliciously sweet, and quenches your thirst on a hot and lively summer night. I would like for you to feel the same lemonade-y goodness from photo restoration: taking old or damaged photos and making something better out of them.

   • 2020, Lisa Swift, chapter 30, in The School of Starting Over, Hera, →ISBN:

     She’d had to sit out the rest of the race, a handkerchief filled with slightly lemonadey ice pressed against her swollen ankle.

   • 2021, kc dyer, An Accidental Odyssey, Jove Books, →ISBN, page 44:

     After all, between the jet lag and the crying I’m probably a little dehydrated, so this lemonadey concoction is likely just what I need.

Alternative forms

• lemonady