pickle
To preserve food in a salt, sugar or vinegar solutionTo preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
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Examples
71 sentencesWhy would anybody eat pickled cabbage?
Tom bought three jars of dill pickles.
Tom bought a jar of dill pickles.
Meaning
6 senses(ergative, transitive)To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
We pickled the remainder of the crop.
These cucumbers pickle very well.
einlegen, pökeln
заса́ливатьzasálivatʹ, соли́тьsolítʹ, ква́ситьkvásitʹ
ква́ситиkvásyty
(transitive)To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning.
beizen
To serialize.
More meanings 3
(historical)To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
(Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive)To eat sparingly.
(Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive)To pilfer.
- preserve in a pickling liquid
Origin
From Middle English pikel (“spicy sauce served with meat or fish”), borrowed from Middle DFrom 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”), Icelandic pækill (“brine”).
Perhaps from Scottish pickle, apparently from pick + -le (diminutive suffix). Compare Scots pickil.
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Forms
pickles, pickling, pickled, pickledTenses
pickle · pickled · will pickle · have pickledSynonyms
2 synonymsWord family
4 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
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