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Definition pickle

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”).

Noun

pickle (plural pickles)

1. A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
2. (often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
3. The brine used for preserving food.
4. (informal) A difficult situation; peril.
5. (affectionate) A mildly mischievous loved one.
6. (baseball) A rundown.
7. A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
8. (slang) A penis.
9. (slang) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
10. (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.
11. In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.

Verb

pickle (third-person singular simple present pickles, present participle pickling, simple past and past participle pickled)

1. (transitive, ergative) To preserve food in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
2. (transitive) To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
3. (programming) (in the Python programming language) To serialize.

Etymology 2

Perhaps from Scottish pickle, apparently from pick +‎ -le (diminutive suffix). Compare Scots pickil.

Noun

pickle (plural pickles)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
2. (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.

Verb

pickle (third-person singular simple present pickles, present participle pickling, simple past and past participle pickled)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To eat sparingly.
2. (Northern England, Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To pilfer.

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