Meaning of Pickle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
   Northern-England, Scotland
2. A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
   Australia, Canada, US, countable, uncountable
3. A surname.
4. A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit, a few. Usually in partitive construction, frequently without "of"; a single grain or kernel of wheat, barley, oats, sand or dust.
   Northern-England, Scotland
5. Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
   countable, in-plural, often, uncountable
6. A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.
   UK, countable, uncountable
7. The brine used for preserving food.
   countable, uncountable
8. A difficult situation; peril.
   countable, informal, uncountable
9. A mildly mischievous loved one.
   countable, endearing, uncountable
10. A rundown.
    countable, uncountable
11. A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
    uncountable
12. A penis.
    countable, slang, uncountable
13. A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
    countable, slang, uncountable
14. A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale, rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their colour.
    countable, uncountable
15. In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“A pickle goes well with a hamburger.”

“This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into.”

“The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off.”

“I beg you, Miss Jones, to realize the pickle you're in.”

“by degrees my little pickle (who, as I told you at the beginning of the story, was the most troublesome child I ever came across) turned into a very well-behaved young gentleman.”

“... If you could get my little pickle to learn his multiplication table before you leave us, you shall have that musical box to take home with you.”

“'And now,' she said, 'what about that kiss my little pickle was going to give his old Auntie?'”

“Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.”

“The boys played pickle in the front yard for an hour.”

“Load some shards in that pickle.”

“[…] ill things are like guid—they baith come bit by bit, a pickle at a time […]”

“I mind him well, and the burn we fished and the pickle things we took out, and your mother that played with us in her cutty sark, and not a shoe between us nor a bodle of money; but the green hills round us, and all we knew of the world that it lay beyond them.”

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