gherkin
A small cucumber, often pickled wholeA small cucumber, often pickled whole.
» Sami bought a jar of gherkins.
Meaning
3 sensesA small cucumber, often pickled whole.
Salzgurke, Gewürzgurke, Gürkchen
корнишо́нkornišón, огу́рчикogúrčik
корнішо́нkornišón
any of various small cucumbers pickled whole
(Ireland, UK)Pickled cucumber regardless of size; a pickle
(slang)The penis.
Examples
3 sentencesSami bought a jar of gherkins.
Put the gherkins next to the cold cuts.
deDie Gewürzgurken neben den Aufschnitt legen.
Fear the revenge of the gherkin!
Translations
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Origin
From a form of Dutch gurk, an archaic variant of augurk (“small pickled cucumber”), from LFrom a form of Dutch gurk, an archaic variant of augurk (“small pickled cucumber”), from Low German, from Middle Low German agurke, augurke, probably via Slavic (compare Polish ogórek), from Byzantine Greek ἀγγούριον (angoúrion, “cucumber”). The underlying Dutch form may be a diminutive (gurkijn) or perhaps more probably the plural (gurken), which was then associated with the English suffix -kin (itself incidentally from Dutch or Low German). Compare German Gurke.
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