pickle.
A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
Meaning & usage
A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
A pickle goes well with a hamburger.
Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.
The brine used for preserving food.
This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into.
A difficult situation; peril.
The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off.
A mildly mischievous loved one.
A rundown.
Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.
A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
The boys played pickle in the front yard for an hour.
A penis.
A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
Load some shards in that pickle.
A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale, rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their colour.
In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English pikel (“spicy sauce served with meat or fish”), borrowed from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German pekel (“brine”). Cognate with Scots pikkill (“salt liquor, brine”), Saterland Frisian Piekele (“pickle, brine”), Dutch pekel (“pickle, brine”), Low German pekel, peckel, pickel, bickel (“pickle, brine”), German Pökel (“pickle, brine”), Icelandic pækill (“brine”).
To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
We pickled the remainder of the crop.
These cucumbers pickle very well.
To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning.
To serialize.
To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English pikel (“spicy sauce served with meat or fish”), borrowed from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German pekel (“brine”). Cognate with Scots pikkill (“salt liquor, brine”), Saterland Frisian Piekele (“pickle, brine”), Dutch pekel (“pickle, brine”), Low German pekel, peckel, pickel, bickel (“pickle, brine”), German Pökel (“pickle, brine”), Icelandic pækill (“brine”).
A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit, a few. Usually in partitive construction, frequently without "of"; a single grain or kernel of wheat, barley, oats, sand or dust.
Where this word comes from
Perhaps from Scottish pickle, apparently from pick + -le (diminutive suffix). Compare Scots pickil.
To eat sparingly.
To pilfer.
Where this word comes from
Perhaps from Scottish pickle, apparently from pick + -le (diminutive suffix). Compare Scots pickil.
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