pickle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup. Australia,Canada,US,countable,uncountable
    — A pickle goes well with a hamburger.
  2. A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.) Northern-England,Scotland
  3. Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish. countable,in-plural,often,uncountable
  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
    — […] ill things are like guid—they baith come bit by bit, a pickle at a time […]
  5. A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain. UK,countable,uncountable
  6. The brine used for preserving food. countable,uncountable
    — This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into.
  7. A difficult situation; peril. countable,informal,uncountable
    — The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off.
  8. A mildly mischievous loved one. countable,endearing,uncountable
    — 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.
  9. A rundown. countable,uncountable
    — Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.
  10. A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown uncountable
    — The boys played pickle in the front yard for an hour.
  11. A penis. countable,slang,uncountable
  12. A pipe for smoking methamphetamine. countable,slang,uncountable
    — Load some shards in that pickle.
  13. 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
  14. In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution. ergative,transitive
    — We pickled the remainder of the crop.
  2. To eat sparingly. Northern-England,Scotland,ambitransitive
  3. To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid. transitive
    — The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning.
  4. To pilfer. Northern-England,Scotland,ambitransitive
  5. To serialize.
    — You can now restore the pickled data. If you like, close your Python interpreter and open a new instance, to convince yourself […]
  6. To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment. historical
    — 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, […]

词形变化

pickles plural pickel alternative,obsolete,rare pickles present,singular,third-person pickling participle,present pickled participle,past pickled past pickel alternative,obsolete,rare pickles plural pickles present,singular,third-person pickling participle,present pickled participle,past pickled past

词汇关系

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词源

词源 1
From 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”).
词源 2
Perhaps from Scottish pickle, apparently from pick + -le (diminutive suffix). Compare Scots pickil.
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