Dictionary Definition
pickle
Noun
1 vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in
brine or vinegar
2 informal terms for a difficult situation; "he
got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn:
fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, kettle of
fish] v : preserve in a pickling liquid
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪkəl
Noun
- 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.
- This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into.
- (idiom) A difficult situation.
- The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off.
- A penis.
- A rundown.
- Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.
- A children's game with three participants that emulates a
baseball rundown
- The boys played pickle in the front yard for an hour.
- An affectionate term for a loved one
- Are you okay my pickle?
Translations
cucumber preserved in brine or vinegar syrup
- Czech: okurka nakládačka
- Finnish: maustekurkku, herkkukurkku, voileipäkurkku, suolakurkku, kurkku
- French: cornichon
- German: Gurke
- Spanish: pepinillo
- Turkish: turşu
- Dutch: augurk
any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed
as relish
brine used for preserving food
- Finnish: liemi, etikkaliemi, suolaliemi
difficult situation
- Finnish: liemi
penis
rundown
children's game
affectionate term for a loved one
Mugglecast's catchphrase
translations to be checked
- ttbc Arabic: مخلل 1
- ttbc Dutch: augurk
- ttbc Hebrew: מלפפון חמוץ
- ttbc Italian: sottaceto , salamoia
- ttbc Japanese: ピクルス (pikurusu)
- ttbc Neapolitan: cumpòsta
- ttbc Portuguese: picles
- ttbc Telugu: ఊరగాయ పచ్చడి (ooragaaya pacchaDi)
Verb
Translations
To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation
from metal with heated sulphuric acid
Alternative spellings
Related terms
Extensive Definition
Pickle or pickling may refer to:
Food
- Pickling, the process of preserving a food by soaking and storing it in vinegar or brine, has been going on for 5,000 years.
- Pickled cucumber, most commonly referred to as a pickle in the US and Canada
- Indian pickle, fruits and vegetables pickled using oil instead of vinegar
- Tsukemono, Japanese varieties of pickle
- Relish, a cooked or pickled sauce commonly referred to as pickle in the United Kingdom
Computer programming
- A serialization library in Modula-3 (programming language)
- A serialization library in Python (programming language)
Metalworking
- Pickling (metal), a treatment of metallic surfaces in order to remove impurities, stains, rust or scale.
Sports and Games
- Pickle-in-the-middle, a three-person game
- Rundown, a situation in baseball
- Pickleball, a game with similarities to tennis
See also
pickle in German: Pickle
pickle in French: Pickle
pickle in Polish: Peklowanie
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
acid,
acidulant, anhydrate, baffle, bafflement, bearings, bewilderment, bind, blast-freeze, booze up,
boozify, bother, box, bread-and-butter pickle,
brine, case, chokecherry, circumstance, clutch, complication, condition, confoundment, confusion, corn, corner, crab apple, crock, crunch, cure, dehydrate, desiccate, dilemma, dill pickle, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertedness,
disconcertion,
disconcertment,
disturbance,
dry, dry-cure, dry-salt,
embalm, embarrassing
position, embarrassment, enigma, estate, evaporate, fine how-do-you-do,
fix, footing, freeze, freeze-dry, fuddle, fume, green apple, hell to pay,
hobble, hole, hot water, how-do-you-do,
imbroglio, irradiate, jam, jerk, kipper, lemon, lime, location, lot, marinade, marinate, mess, mix, modality, mode, morass, mummify, mystery, nonplus, overtake, parlous straits,
pass, perplexity, perturbation, pinch, place, plaster, plight, pollute, position, posture, pother, predicament, preservatize, pretty pass,
pretty pickle, pretty predicament, problem, puzzle, puzzlement, quagmire, quandary, quick-freeze,
quicksand, rank, refrigerate, riddle, salt, scrape, season, situation, slough, smoke, smoke-cure, sour, sour balls, sour cream, sour
grapes, sour pickle, sourdough, souse, spot, squeeze, standing, state, station, status, stew, sticky wicket, stone, strait, straits, stuff, swack, swamp, tight spot, tight squeeze,
tightrope, tipsify, tricky spot, unassuredness, unholy
mess, upset, verjuice, vinegar, yogurt