pickle

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

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

Verb

1. (ergative, transitive) To preserve food (or sometimes other things) 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. To serialize.
4. (historical) To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.

Verb

1. (Northern-England, Scotland, ambitransitive) To eat sparingly.
2. (Northern-England, Scotland, ambitransitive) To pilfer.

Concepts

cornichon

saler

🧂

morpion

marinade

bite

gamin

mariner

membre

pénis

queue

saumure

verge

zizi

zob

affreux jojo

quéquette

embrouillamini

vinaigrer

emmerde

cornichon à la russe

décaper

conserver au vinaigre

bourbier

confiture

pickles

trou

🕳️

Synonymes

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

Traductions

pekelen

pepinillo

inmaken

turşu

😫

Lümmel

🧑‍🌾

pökeln

escabeche

zouten

🧂

bengel

inleggen

straatbengel

blaag

🧒

snotaap

vlegel

Essiggurke

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈpɪkl̩/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: pikel

Appartenant à écossais: pikkill

Appartenant à saterlandais: Piekele

Appartenant à néerlandais: pekel

Appartenant à bas-allemand: pekel

Appartenant à allemand: Pökel

Appartenant à écossais: 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”).