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pickle
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?kl?/
- Rhymes: -?k?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English pikel, pykyl, pekille, pigell (“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”).
Alternative forms
- pickel (obsolete and rare)
Noun
pickle (countable and uncountable, plural pickles)
- A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
- A pickle goes well with a hamburger.
- (often in the plural) 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.
- (informal) A difficult situation; peril.
- The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 194:
- I beg you, Miss Jones, to realize the pickle you're in.
- (endearing) A mildly mischievous loved one.
- (baseball) A rundown.
- Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.
- (uncountable) A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
- The boys played pickle in the front yard for an hour.
- (slang) A penis.
- (slang) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
- Load some shards in that pickle.
- (metalworking) 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.
Synonyms
- (penis): See also Thesaurus:penis
Derived terms
- in a pickle
- pickle switch
Descendants
- ? Dutch: pickles
- ? French: pickles
- ? Irish: picil
- ? Korean: ?? (pikeul)
- ? Spanish: pickles
- ? Welsh: picil
Translations
See also
- piccalilli
Verb
pickle (third-person singular simple present pickles, present participle pickling, simple past and past participle pickled)
- (transitive, ergative) 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.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pickle.
- (transitive) To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
- The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning.
- (programming) (in the Python programming language) To serialize.
- 2005, Peter Norton et al, Beginning Python:
- You can now restore the pickled data. If you like, close your Python interpreter and open a new instance, to convince yourself […]
- 2005, Peter Norton et al, Beginning Python:
- (historical) To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
- 1756, Thomas Thistlewood, diary, quoted in 2001, Glyne A. Griffith, Caribbean Cultural Identities, Bucknell University Press (?ISBN), page 38:
- On Wednesday 26 May, […] I had [an enslaved man] flogged and pickled and then made Hector shit in his mouth. […] In July, […] Gave [another enslaved man] a moderate whipping, pickled him well, made Hector shit in his mouth, […]
- 2016, Christopher P. Magra, Poseidon's Curse: British Naval Impressment and Atlantic Origins of the American Revolution, Cambridge University Press (?ISBN), page 70:
- Naval seamen could also be keel-hauled, ducked, pickled, and flogged around the fleet.
- [elsewhere, page 93, the book explains:] A pickled man had his flogged back washed with vinegar.
- Naval seamen could also be keel-hauled, ducked, pickled, and flogged around the fleet.
- 1756, Thomas Thistlewood, diary, quoted in 2001, Glyne A. Griffith, Caribbean Cultural Identities, Bucknell University Press (?ISBN), page 38:
Derived terms
- pickled
- pickling
Translations
Etymology 2
Perhaps from Scottish pickle, apparently from pick +? -le (diminutive suffix). Compare Scots pickil.
Noun
pickle (plural pickles)
- (Northern England, Scotland) A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
- (Northern England, Scotland) 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.
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, "Thrawn Janet"
- […] ill things are like guid—they baith come bit by bit, a pickle at a time […]
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, "Thrawn Janet"
Verb
pickle (third-person singular simple present pickles, present participle pickling, simple past and past participle pickled)
- (Northern England, Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To eat sparingly.
- (Northern England, Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To pilfer.
Anagrams
- pelick
French
Etymology
English pickle
Noun
pickle m (plural pickles)
- pickle (kind of chutney popular in Britain)
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drysalter
English
Etymology
From dry +? salter.
Noun
drysalter (plural drysalters)
- (now historical) A dealer in chemicals used in the arts (oils, preservatives etc.) as well as, often, preserved foodstuffs including pickles or salted meats.
- 1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 82:
- How striking it was to find such sentiments in a man who had risen from nothing to a great fortune, as a dry-salter in London.
- 1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 82:
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- drysaltery
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