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1. • • Informal. a troublesome or awkward situation; predicament: I was in a pickle after the check bounced. Synonyms: jam, scrape, bind, fix, quandary, plight
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   What does Pickle mean?

   • Get a quick, free translation! PICKLE definition: 1. a vegetable or fruit in vinegar or in salty water, especially a cucumber: 2. a sauce made from…. Learn more.

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   Where did the word pickle come from?

   • pickle mid-15c., probably from Middle Dutch pekel "pickle, brine," from a Low German root of uncertain origin or meaning (cf. [...] German pökel). [...] Figurative sense of "sorry plight" first recorded 1560s. The figurative version of the phrase, meaning simply 'in a fix' [...] arrives during the [16th] century.

   Where did the phrase "in a pickle" come from?

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   What does Pikel mean in English?

   • 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”) .

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   What does Pickle a car mean?

   • to preserve or steep in brine or other liquid. to treat with a chemical solution, as for the purpose of cleaning. to give a pale, streaked finish to (wood) by applying and partly removing paint or by bleaching, as to give an appearance of age. Let's pickle these old cars for a few years. , Scot. and North England.

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   How are pickles made?

   • Fresh pickles are prepared using boiling-water processing and vinegar and salt as preserving agents. The company produces 28 million jars of pickle a year. I hope that you can help, because this is quite a pickle. The runner strayed too far from third base and was caught in a pickle. be pickled in The onions had been pickled in brine.

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   What is a pickle chutney?

   • pickle ( countable and uncountable, plural pickles) (chiefly US, Canada, Australia) A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup. A pickle goes well with a hamburger. (often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish. ( UK) A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.

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   What does the word pickle mean? There are 14 meanings listed in OED's entry for the word pickle , two of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

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   Synonyms of pickle. 1. : a solution or bath for preserving or cleaning: such as. a. : a brine or vinegar solution in which foods are preserved. b. : any of various baths used in industrial cleaning or processing. 2. : a difficult situation : plight. could see no way out of the pickle I was in R. L. Stevenson. 3.

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   any food preserved in this way. a liquid or marinade, such as spiced vinegar, for preserving vegetables, meat, fish, etc. a cucumber that has been preserved and flavoured in a pickling solution, such as brine or vinegar. informal. an awkward or difficult situation. to be in a pickle.

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   Pickles are vegetables or fruit, sometimes cut into pieces, which have been kept in vinegar or salt water for a long time so that they have a strong, sharp taste. 2. Pickle is a cold spicy sauce with pieces of vegetables and fruit in it.

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   Sep 27, 2024 · pickle (countable and uncountable, plural pickles) ( chiefly US , Canada , Australia ) A cucumber preserved in a solution , usually a brine or a vinegar syrup. A pickle goes well with a hamburger.

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   4 days ago · English acquired the word pickle in the fourteenth century, probably from Middle Low German pekel (ancestor of modern German pökel, ‘brine, pickle’). Its primary meaning seems to have been ‘brine for preserving food’, but it was also used from earliest times for a ‘relish for enlivening meat’ (‘Seven knave [male] children ...