pickles

See also: Pickles

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪkl̩z/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

pickles

1. plural of pickle

Noun

pickles (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) Nonsense; folly.

   Synonyms: gammon, gammon and pickles, tripe, tripe and onions

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary

Verb

pickles

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of pickle

Anagrams

• pelicks, spickle

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

pickles m (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. (Belgium) piccalilli

Synonyms

• piccalilly

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.kœls/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

pickles m (uncountable)

1. pickle (pickled vegetable)

Further reading

• “pickles”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pickles.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.klis/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.klis/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.kliʃ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.klɨʃ/

Noun

pickles m (invariable)

1. alternative form of picles

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pickles.

Noun

pickles m pl (plural only)

1. pickles

Usage notes

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.