gherkin

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

cetriolino

cetriolo

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Cucumis anguria

cetriolo delle antille

cetriolo delle indie occidentali

cetriolo sott'aceto

sinonimi

pickle

cucumber

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pickled gherkin

West Indian gherkin

Cucumis anguria

west indian gherkin

bur gherkin

cucumber in vinegar

cornichon

cuke

Traduzioni

cornichon

augurk

Gewürzgurke

pepinillo

Salzgurke

Essiggurke

Gurke

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pepino em conserva

Pfeffergurke

concombre

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saure Gurke

αγγουράκι

pepino

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Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈɡɝkɪn/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Affine polacco: 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.