pickle
Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
Other meanings
The brine used for preserving food.
“This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into.”
A difficult situation; peril.
“The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off.”
A kind of
- relish
Kinds of pickle
- dill pickle
- sweet pickle
Example sentences
Word history
From Middle Low German "pekel" (brine).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “pickle” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.