different between pickler vs tickler

English

Etymology

pickle +? -er

Noun

pickler (plural picklers)

1. One who pickles food products.
2. A cucumber grown for pickling.
   • 1989, Ib Libner Nonnecke, Vegetable Production (page 520)

     The slicing cucumbers' production systems are geared to be first on the market, whereas for the picklers this urgency is not so great.

3. A machine that pickles metal.
4. (programming) (in the Python programming language) A program or algorithm that performs serialization.

Translations

Anagrams

• prickle

English

Etymology

tickle +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?k?l?(?)/, /?t?kl?(?)/

Noun

tickler (plural ticklers)

1. One who tickles.
2. (informal) A person who or thing which amuses or excites.
3. A reminder.

   Put it in the tickler file for next week.

4. A latex condom that has additional protrusions, for enhancing the sexual pleasure of the user.
5. (informal, dated) Something puzzling or difficult; a conundrum.
6. (US, business) A tickler file, file cabinet, or similar containing memoranda of deadlines arranged in date order.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)

7. (Britain, dated) A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks.
8. (dated) A dram of spirits.

Synonyms

• (condom): French tickler

Derived terms

Translations

References

• tickler at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Tickler file on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• trickle