pickle
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪkəl
[edit] Etymology 1
From Middle English pekille (“spicy sauce served with meat or fish”) or pikel, from Middle Dutch pekel (“brine”)
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[edit] Noun
pickle (plural pickles)
- A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
- A pickle goes well with a hamburger.
- (Often in plural: pickles), any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
- The brine used for preserving food.
- This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into.
- A difficult situation, peril.
- The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 194:
- I beg you, Miss Jones, to realize the pickle' you're in.
- An affectionate term for a mildly mischievous loved one
- 1867, Polly Stubbs, Nursery times; or, Stories about the little ones, by an old nurse, page 143:
- by degrees my little pickle (who, as I told you at the beginning of the story, was the most troublesome child I ever came across) turned into a very well-behaved young gentleman.
- 1885, Eleanor A. Bulley, Great Britain for little Britons, page 116:
- ... If you could get my little pickle to learn his multiplication table before you leave us, you shall have that musical box to take home with you.
- 1965, Eric Malpass, Morning's at seven, page 43:
- 'And now,' she said, 'what about that kiss my little pickle was going to give his old Auntie?'
- 1867, Polly Stubbs, Nursery times; or, Stories about the little ones, by an old nurse, page 143:
- (baseball) A rundown.
- Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.
- A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
- The boys played pickle in the front yard for an hour.
- (slang) A penis.
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- (penis): See also Wikisaurus:penis
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[edit] Translations
cucumber preserved in brine or vinegar syrup
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any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish
brine used for preserving food
difficult situation
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affectionate term for a loved one
baseball: rundown
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[edit] Verb
pickle (third-person singular simple present pickles, present participle pickling, simple past and past participle pickled)
- To preserve food in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
- We pickled the remainder of the crop.
- To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
- The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning.
- (programming) (in the Python programming language) To serialize.
- 2005, Peter Norton et al, Beginning Python
- You can now restore the pickled data. If you like, close your Python interpreter and open a new instance, to convince yourself...
- 2008, Marty Alchin, Pro Django
- To illustrate how this would work in practice, consider a field designed to store and retrieve a pickled copy of any arbitrary Python object.
- 2005, Peter Norton et al, Beginning Python
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[edit] Translations
to preserve food in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution
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to remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated industrial acid
Python programming language: to serialize
[edit] Etymology 2
Perhaps from Scottish pickle 'to trifle, pilfer'
[edit] Noun
pickle (plural pickles)
