pickle

Betekenis (English)

Noun

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

Verb

1. To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
2. To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
3. To serialize.
4. To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.

Verb

1. To eat sparingly.
2. To pilfer.

Synonyms

salt

🧂

cure

preserve

souse

marinate

brine

mess

gherkin

conserve

corn

🌽

marinade

make sour

putz

fix

member

jam

pecker

plight

kettle of fish

naughty boy

prick

keep

dong

muddle

ferment

penis

hole

🕳️

dick

puzzlement

retain

scrape

soak

solution

soup

🍲

steep

stew

🍲

stock

strip

suspense

trouble

wang

worry

salt down

soak in

preserve food

formaldehyde solution

pigs’ feet

vinegar sause

jamoke

shlong

tallywhacker

donger

love muscle

remove with solvent

bad news

cornichon

bewilderment

bother

brat

broth

cherish

constraint

dip

do

embarrassment

hold

hot water

imbroglio

impasse

keep up

kid

🧒

maintain

mango

🥭

mordant

mystification

perplexity

phallus

piccalilli

pickled cucumber

pickled gherkin

problem

pud

punk

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈpɪkl̩/

Etimologie (English)

Inherited from Middle English: pikel

Cognate with Skots: pikkill

Cognate with Saterfriesisch: Piekele

Cognate with Nederlands: pekel

Cognate with Nederduits: pekel

Cognate with Duits: Pökel

Cognate with Skots: pickil

In summary

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”).