Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (Aus.) an immigrant from England; thus hasn’t got the lime-juice off, smelling of lime-juice etc, used of newly arrived immigrants.

1857		Bell’s Life in Victoria (Melbourne) 14 Feb. 2/3: [I] have taken with me four men [...] all of them fellows who have been long enough in the country ‘to forget the taste of lime juice’.
1887		‘Aus. Colloquialisms’ in All Year Round 30 July 66/2: A young man newly arrived in the Colonies from the Old Country is styled a ‘new chum,’ or a ‘lime-juice’ .
1894		Truth (Sydney) 2 Sept. 7/5: A quid to nothing, Charlie. Do His Limejuice Nibs up bad.

2. as attrib. use of sense 1.

1890

Dead Bird (Sydney) 8 Feb. 6/1: There was a new-chum barman in the Emu’s favorite pub the other day. The thirsty bird asked for a shandygaff, and his limejuice nibs, [...] asked the boss, ‘Where’s the shandygaff bottle, boss?’.

3. (US) as Lime juice country, England.

1933

(con. 1870) H. Asbury Barbary Coast 206: Two of them not only refused, but actually pointed a revolver at him, and told him that he was not in a ‘B— Lime Juice’ country, but in God’s own free land.

4. (US) English, English idiom.

1946

C.B. Davis Adventure 22: He called me Nipper, which is Limejuice for kid or punk.