pickle
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Is pickle a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (chiefly US, Canada, Australia) A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.Examples: "A pickle goes well with a hamburger."AustraliaCanadaUScountableuncountable
2. (often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.countablein-pluraloftenuncountable
3. (UK) A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.UKcountableuncountable
4. (informal) A difficult situation; peril.Examples: "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."Synonyms: ass in a sling, bind, bucket of syrup, calvary, cross, cross to bear, difficulty, dilemmacountableinformaluncountable
5. (endearing) A mildly mischievous loved one.Examples: "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?'"countableendearinguncountable
6. (baseball) A rundown.Examples: "Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third."countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive, ergative) To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.Examples: "We pickled the remainder of the crop."; "These cucumbers pickle very well."ergativetransitive
2. (transitive) To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.Examples: "The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning."transitive
3. (programming, in Python) To serialize.Examples: "You can now restore the pickled data. If you like, close your Python interpreter and open a new instance, to convince yourself […]"; "To illustrate how this would work in practice, consider a field designed to store and retrieve a pickled copy of any arbitrary Python object."
4. (historical) To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.Examples: "On Wednesday 26 May, […] I had [an enslaved man] flogged and pickled and then made Hector shit in his mouth. […] In July, […] Gave [another enslaved man] a moderate whipping, pickled him well, made Hector shit in his mouth, […]"; "Naval seamen could also be keel-hauled, ducked, pickled, and flogged around the fleet. [elsewhere, page 93, the book explains:] A pickled man had his flogged back washed with vinegar."historical
noun (English)
1. (Northern England, Scotland) A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)Northern-EnglandScotland
2. (Northern England, Scotland) 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.Examples: "[…] 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."Northern-EnglandScotland
verb (English)
1. (Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive) To eat sparingly.Northern-EnglandScotlandambitransitive
2. (Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive) To pilfer.Northern-EnglandScotlandambitransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary