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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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   How many meanings does the word pickle have?

   • The Oxford English Dictionary lists 14 meanings for the word 'pickle'. Two of these meanings are labelled as obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. How common is the word 'pickle'? About 1 occurrence per million words in modern written English. How is the word 'pickle' pronounced? Where does the word 'pickle' come from?

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   Where did the name Pickle come from?

   • pickle (n.) c. 1400, "spiced sauce served with meat or fowl" (early 14c. as a surname), probably from Middle Dutch pekel "pickle, brine," or related words in Low German and East Frisian (Dutch pekel, East Frisian päkel, German pökel ), which are of uncertain origin or original meaning.

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   Is pickle a slang word?

   • pickle (v.) "to preserve in a pickle or brine," 1550s, from pickle (n.). Related: Pickled; pickling. 1550s, "preserved in a pickle sauce," past-participle adjective from pickle (v.). From 1690s as "roguish;" the slang figurative sense of "drunk" is attested by 1900, American English. piccalilli (n.)

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   What does cucumber preserved in Pickle mean?

   • The meaning "cucumber preserved in pickle" first recorded 1707, via use of the word for the salty liquid in which meat, etc. was preserved (c. 1500). Colloquial figurative sense of "a sorry plight, a state or condition of difficulty or disorder" is recorded by 1560s, from the time when the word still meant a sauce served on meat about to be eaten.

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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 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. pickle has developed meanings and uses in subjects including. food and cooking (Middle English) military (1930s) navy (1930s) See meaning & use.

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   Find 2,067 synonyms for pickle and other similar words that you can use instead based on 9 separate contexts from our thesaurus.

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   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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   Jun 4, 2020 · pickle (n.) c. 1400, "spiced sauce served with meat or fowl" (early 14c. as a surname), probably from Middle Dutch pekel "pickle, brine," or related words in Low German and East Frisian (Dutch pekel , East Frisian päkel , German pökel ), which are of uncertain origin or original meaning.

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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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   noun. a cucumber that has been preserved in brine, vinegar, or the like. Often pickles. any other vegetable, as cauliflower, celery, etc., preserved in vinegar and eaten as a relish. something preserved in a brine or marinade.

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   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.