pickle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪkl̩/
rhymes: -ɪkəl
Forms: form: pickles
form: pickel
Etymology: 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”).
Senses: examples: text: A pickle goes well with a hamburger.
glosses: A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
glosses: Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
glosses: A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.
examples: text: This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into.
glosses: The brine used for preserving food.
examples: text: The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off.
text: I beg you, Miss Jones, to realize the pickle you're in.
ref: 1955 October, Rex Stout, “Die Like a Dog”, in Three Witnesses, Bantam, published 1994, →ISBN, page 194:
synonyms: word: ass in a sling
word: bind
word: bucket of syrup
word: calvary
word: cross
word: cross to bear
word: difficulty
word: dilemma
word: dire straits
word: doghouse
word: fix
word: hole
word: jam
word: kettle of fish
word: ordeal
word: pickle
word: pinch
word: plight
word: predicament
word: quandary
word: quagmire
word: situation
word: spot
word: spot of bother
word: sticky situation
word: sticky wicket
word: tight spot
word: trouble
glosses: A difficult situation; peril.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1867, Polly Stubbs, Nursery times; or, Stories about the little ones, by an old nurse, page 143:
text: ... 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.
ref: 1885, Eleanor A. Bulley, Great Britain for little Britons, page 116:
text: 'And now,' she said, 'what about that kiss my little pickle was going to give his old Auntie?'
ref: 1965, Eric Malpass, Morning's at seven, page 43:
glosses: A mildly mischievous loved one.
examples: text: Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A rundown.
examples: text: The boys played pickle in the front yard for an hour.
glosses: A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
synonyms: word: anaconda
word: baloney pony
word: bald-headed hermit
word: banana
word: birdie
word: bobby
word: boonga
word: cack
word: choad
word: choda
word: chode
word: chopper
word: cigar
word: cock
word: corey
word: crank
word: cucumber
word: custard launcher
word: D
word: dick
word: dicklet
word: diddle
word: diddly
word: dingaling
word: ding-a-ling
word: ding-dong
word: dinger
word: dingle
word: dingus
word: dingy
word: dink
word: dinkle
word: dipstick
word: dirk
word: disco stick
word: dog bone
word: dong
word: donger
word: Donkey Kong
word: doodle
word: dork
word: down
word: fire hose
word: fuckpole
word: gherkin
word: hairy canary
word: hammer
word: hog
word: hot dog
word: hot rod
word: hoo-hoo
word: hooter
word: it
word: jade stalk
word: jamoke
word: jigger
word: jimmy
word: jock
word: johnson
word: John Thomas
word: joint
word: Jonathan
word: joystick
word: kielbasa
word: knob
word: lad
word: langer
word: lingam
word: love muscle
word: love stick
word: love truncheon
word: love sausage
word: love wand
word: machine
word: magnum
word: Master John Goodfellow
word: male member
word: manhood
word: man-meat
word: meat
word: meat puppet
word: meat rod
word: meat scepter
word: meatstick
word: meat stick
word: member
word: membrum virile
word: nature's scythe
word: nob
word: old chap
word: old fellow
word: one-eyed trouser snake
word: organ
word: package
word: pecker
word: peen
word: pee-pee
word: pee-wee
word: pego
word: penis
word: Percy
word: peter
word: phallus
word: pickle
word: piece
word: piece of pork
word: pike
word: pillicock
word: pingas
word: pink cigar
word: pink oboe
word: pintle
word: pipe
word: pisser
word: piston
word: pizzle
word: plonker
word: pork sword
word: prick
word: pud
word: purple-headed yogurt slinger
word: putz
word: p-word
word: python
word: ramrod
word: rape tool
word: rod
word: root
word: rutter
word: salami
word: sausage
word: schlong
word: schmuck
word: sex tool
word: shaft
word: shlong
word: shmekl (qualifier
word: colloquial
word: Yiddish)
word: short arm
word: skin flute
word: snake
word: snausage
word: spitstick
word: stem
word: stretcher
word: sucker
word: swipe
word: tadger
word: tagger
word: tail
word: tallywhacker
word: tarse
word: thing
word: thingy
word: third leg
word: tic tac
word: todger
word: tool
word: trouser monkey
word: trouser snake
word: truncheon
word: tube steak
word: unit
word: virile member
word: wang
word: weapon
word: wee-wee
word: weenie
word: weeny
word: whang
word: wick
word: widgie
word: widdler
word: wiener
word: willie
word: willy
word: wingwang
word: winkle
word: winky
word: yard
word: ying-yang
glosses: A penis.
examples: text: Load some shards in that pickle.
glosses: A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
topics: arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: 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.
glosses: In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.
Derived terms: bread-and-butter pickle
Christmas pickle
Dickel pickle
dill pickle
frickle
gammon and pickles
hunger is the best pickle
in a pickle
Koolickle
kosher pickle
military pickle
pickleable
pickleback
pickleball
pickle boat
pickle fork
pickle fruit
picklehead
pickle-herring
pickle juice
pickleless
picklelike
pickleman
pickle park
pickle plant
pickler
picklerita
picklery
picklesome
pickle switch
pickletini
pickle up one's ass
pickleweed
pickleworm
pickly
put a rod in pickle
quickle
rod in pickle
sea pickle
tickle someone's pickle
unpickle
whatever tickles your pickle
white pickle
Related terms: piccalilli