Definitions for PICKLE
ˈpɪk əlpick·le

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. picklenoun

   vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar

2. fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fishverb

   informal terms for a difficult situation

   "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"

3. pickleverb

   preserve in a pickling liquid

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Picklenoun

   Etymology: pekel, Dutch.

   1. Any kind of salt liquor, in which flesh or other substance is preserved.

   Thou shalt be whipt with wire, and stew’d in brine,
   Smarting in lingring pickle. William Shakespeare.

   Some fish are gutted, split and kept in pickle; as whiting and mackerel. Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall.

   He instructs his friends that dine with him in the best pickle for a walnut. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 482.

   A third sort of antiscorbuticks are called astringent; as capers, and most of the common pickles prepared with vinegar. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.

   2. Thing kept in pickle.3. Condition; state. A word of contempt and ridicule.

   How cam’st thou in this pickle? William Shakespeare.

   A physician undertakes a woman with sore eyes; his way was to dawb ’em with ointments, and while she was in that pickle, carry off a spoon. Roger L'Estrange.

   Poor Umbra, left in this abandon’d pickle,
   E’en sits him down. Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies.

2. Picklenoun

   or pightel. A small parcel of land inclosed with a hedge, which in some countries is called a pingle. Phillips.

3. To Pickleverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To preserve in pickle.

   Autumnal cornels next in order serv’d,
   In lees of wine well pickl’d and preserv’d. Dryden.

   They shall have all, rather than make a war,
   The Straits, the Guiney-trade, the herrings too;
   Nay, to keep friendship, they shall pickle you. Dryden.

   2. To season or imbue highly with any thing bad: as, a pickled rogue, or one consummately villainous.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pickle

   A pickle is a cucumber that has been preserved and flavored in a solution of vinegar, salt, and other seasonings, often with the addition of garlic or dill. The process is known as pickling. It can also refer to the process of preserving food in a brine or vinegar solution. The term "pickle" can also be used more broadly to refer to any kind of food that has been preserved in this way.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. Picklenoun

   see Picle

2. Pickleverb

   a solution of salt and water, in which fish, meat, etc., may be preserved or corned; brine

3. Pickleverb

   vinegar, plain or spiced, used for preserving vegetables, fish, eggs, oysters, etc

4. Pickleverb

   any article of food which has been preserved in brine or in vinegar

5. Pickleverb

   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 color

6. Pickleverb

   a troublesome child; as, a little pickle

7. Pickleverb

   to preserve or season in pickle; to treat with some kind of pickle; as, to pickle herrings or cucumbers

8. Pickleverb

   to give an antique appearance to; -- said of copies or imitations of paintings by the old masters

9. Etymology: [Cf. D. pekel. Probably a dim. fr. Pick, v. t., alluding to the cleaning of the fish.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pickle

   In the computer programming language Python, pickle is the standard mechanism for object serialization; pickling is the common term among Python programmers for serialization. Pickle uses a simple stack-based virtual machine that records the instructions used to reconstruct the object. This makes pickle vulnerable to security risks by malformed or maliciously constructed data, that may cause the deserializer to import arbitrary modules and instantiate any object. Not all object types can be pickled automatically, especially ones that hold operating system resources like file handles, but users can register custom "reduction" and construction functions to support the pickling and unpickling of arbitrary types. Pickle was originally implemented as the pure Python pickle module, but, in versions of Python prior to 3.0, the cPickle module offers improved performance. In Python 3, users should always import the standard version, which attempts to import the accelerated version and falls back to the pure Python version.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pickle

   pik′l, n. a liquid of salt and water in which flesh and vegetables are preserved: vinegar, &c., in which articles of food are preserved: anything pickled: a disagreeable position: (coll.) a troublesome child.—v.t. to season or preserve with salt, vinegar, &c.—ns. Pick′le-herr′ing, a pickled herring: (obs.) a merry-andrew; Pick′le-worm, the larva of a pyralid moth.—Have a rod in pickle, to have a punishment ready. [M. E. pikil, prob. pick-le; Dut. pekel; Ger. pökel.]

2. Pickle

   pik′l, n. (Scot.) a small quantity.—v.t. and v.i. to eat sparingly: to pilfer.

The Standard Electrical DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pickle

   An acid solution for cleaning metal surfaces before electro-plating, galvanizing or other deposition of metal upon them.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pickle

   Water replete with saline particles, as brine-pickle for salt meat. The briny wave.

Rap DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. picklenoun

   Penis. "I got them chasing all after the pickle" -- Ludacris

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. PICKLE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Pickle is ranked #9493 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Pickle surname appeared 3,425 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Pickle.
   
   94.2% or 3,227 total occurrences were White.
   1.7% or 60 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.6% or 55 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.4% or 50 total occurrences were Black.
   0.7% or 24 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.2% or 9 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Cookery
   • Preserve
   • Relish

Anagrams for PICKLE »

1. pelick

How to pronounce PICKLE?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say PICKLE in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of PICKLE in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of PICKLE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of PICKLE in a Sentence

1. Chairwoman Felicia Marcus told reporters:

   We're in a tough pickle on this, we have to prepare for drought and flooding at the same time.

2. Lisa Bragança:

   This is a real pickle for UBS to say the collateral value assigned to the closed-end fund shares is zero.

3. Ambrose Bierce:

   Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

4. Alice Roosevelt Longfellow, about Calvin Coolidge:

   He appears to have been weened on a pickle.

5. Sally T.:

   That's a dilly of a pickle.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=PICKLE
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=PICKLE
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/PICKLE
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=PICKLE
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=PICKLE
7. ^ The Standard Electrical Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26535/pg26535-images.html#:~:text=PICKLE
8. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=PICKLE
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html