gherkin

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A small cucumber, often pickled whole.
2. (Ireland, UK) Pickled cucumber regardless of size; a pickle
3. (slang) The penis.

Name

Alternative letter-case form of Gherkin.

Conceptes

cogombre

cogombret

cogombre petit

cogombres

pepino

Sinònims

pickle

cucumber

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pickled gherkin

West Indian gherkin

Cucumis anguria

west indian gherkin

bur gherkin

cucumber in vinegar

cornichon

cuke

Traduccions

cornichon

augurk

cetriolino

Gewürzgurke

Essiggurke

Gurke

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Salzgurke

pepinillo

Pfeffergurke

αγγουράκι

pepino em conserva

concombre

🥒

saure Gurke

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈɡɝkɪn/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Cognat amb polonès: ogórek

In summary

From a form of Dutch gurk, an archaic variant of augurk (“small pickled cucumber”), from Low German, from Middle Low German agurke, augurke, probably via Slavic (compare Polish ogórek), from Byzantine Greek ἀγγούριον (angoúrion, “cucumber”). The underlying Dutch form may be a diminutive (gurkijn) or perhaps more probably the plural (gurken), which was then associated with the English suffix -kin (itself incidentally from Dutch or Low German). Compare German Gurke.