pickles

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English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpɪkəlz/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

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pickles

  1. plural of pickle

Noun

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pickles (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial) Nonsense; folly.
    Synonyms: gammon, gammon and pickles, tripe, tripe and onions

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Verb

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pickles

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of pickle

Anagrams

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English pickles, itself from Middle Dutch pekel (brine).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pickles m (uncountable)

  1. (Belgium) piccalilli

Synonyms

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French

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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pickles m (uncountable)

  1. pickle (pickled vegetable)

Further reading

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English pickles.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pickles m (invariable)

  1. Alternative form of picles

Spanish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English pickles.

Noun

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pickles m pl (plural only)

  1. pickles

Usage notes

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According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.