pickle
/ˈpɪkəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.39 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
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- Countable
- Uncountable
- British usage
- Informal
- Slang