Crossword clues for pickle
pickle
- Spot
- Predicament
- Vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar
- Informal terms for a difficult situation
- Jam — vegetables preserved in vinegar or brine
- Awkward situation
- Tight spot
- Cream the French used as accompaniment to cheese?
- Chutney, relish
- Choice the French relish
- Relish being fashion designer in large house
- Preserve; mess
- Preserve in vinegar
- Preserve in brine or vinegar
- Tricky situation to be in
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Picle \Pi"cle\ ((p[i^]k"'l), n. [Prob. fr. pightel or pingle.] A small piece of land inclosed with a hedge; a close. [Obs.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, probably from Middle Dutch pekel "pickle, brine," or related words in Low German and East Frisian (Dutch pekel, East Frisian päkel, German pökel), of uncertain origin or original meaning. Klein suggests the name of a medieval Dutch fisherman who developed the process. Originally a sauce served with meat or fowl; meaning "cucumber preserved in pickle" first recorded 1707, via use of the word for the salty liquid in which meat, etc. was preserved (c.1500). Figurative sense of "sorry plight" first recorded 1560s, from the time when the word still meant a sauce served on meat about to be eaten. Meaning "troublesome boy" is from 1788, perhaps from the notion of being "imbued" with roguery.
1550s, from pickle (n.). Related: Pickled; pickling.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 alt. 1 A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup. 2 (''Often in plural: pickles''), any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish. 3 The brine used for preserving food. 4 A difficult situation, peril. 5 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. 6 An affectionate term for a mildly mischievous loved one 7 (context baseball English) A rundown. 8 A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown 9 (context slang English) A penis. 10 (context slang English) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine. 11 (context metalworking English) 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. 12 In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted. n. 1 A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup. 2 (''Often in plural: pickles''), any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish. 3 The brine used for preserving food. 4 A difficult situation, peril. 5 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. 6 An affectionate term for a mildly mischievous loved one 7 (context baseball English) A rundown. 8 A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown 9 (context slang English) A penis. 10 (context slang English) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine. 11 (context metalworking English) 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. 12 In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted. vb. 1 To preserve food in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution. 2 To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid. 3 (context programming English) (context in the Python programming language English) To serialize. Etymology 2
n. 1 (context Scotland English) A kernel, grain 2 (context Scotland English) A bit, small quantity
WordNet
v. preserve in a pickling liquid
Wikipedia
Pickle may refer to:
- Pickles, a name for pickled cucumber in the US and Canada
- Pickle, a sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain, such as Branston (brand) Pickle, also known as "sweet pickle" or "ploughman's pickle"
- Any vegetable that has undergone pickling
In the computer programming language Python, pickle is the standard mechanism for object serialization; pickling is the common term among Python programmers for serialization (unpickling for deserializing). 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 (also a built-in) offers improved performance (up to 1000 times faster). The cPickle was adapted from the Unladen Swallow project. 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.
Usage examples of "pickle".
Make a stuffing of one cupful of bread-crumbs, one teaspoonful each of melted butter, Worcestershire sauce, tomato catsup, minced parsley, minced onion, minced olives or pickles, lemon-juice, salt, black pepper, and paprika to taste, and sufficient cold water to moisten.
Japanese cultured food that also is used in making miso, shoyu, and sake, and in pickling.
She lifted the lid, drank the miso soup, polished off slices of sweet grilled eel with a flash of chopsticks, and finished with a pickle and cold rice.
Shizuka exclaimed when she saw the delicacies of the season, raw sea bream and squid, broiled eel with green perilla and horseradish, pickled cucumbers and salted lotus root, rare black mushrooms and burdock, laid out on the lacquer trays.
I got out nachos and taramasalata and olives and carrots and pitta bread and brie and wine and mango pieces and pickled onions and carried them back to the sofa on a tray and ate them without tasting very much.
The roof was hung with hams and polonies and sausages, there were barrels of pickled meats, stacks of fat round cheeses, cases of Hansa beer, cases of cognac, pyramids of canned truffles, asparagus tips, shrimps, mushrooms, olives in oil, and other rarities.
Camembert cheese heated slightly, just enough to spread, a Boston rarebit made with cream and egg left over scrambled eggs and cress, roast chicken and chopped dill pickles, cheese and chopped dates or figs, orange marmalade, and sardines pounded to a paste with a few drops of lemon juice added.
Also a Salicornia, or jointed Glasswort, or Saltwort, or Crabgrass, is sold as Samphire for a pickle, in the Italian oil shops.
A small man wearing a bow tie stood on the other side of a wooden counter, nearly lost behind a barricade of scuppernong jelly and Sweet Fire pickles.
This medieval market street is a quarter mile long, roofed over with red, green, and yellow awnings, and lined with 141 specialized shops selling raw and cooked foods, seaweed and rice and tofu of every description, fresh-roasted tea, sashimi knives, whiskey, pickles, and more fish than in an average-sized oceana hundred species in cases and tanks, pickled, dried, and salted fish in barrels and trays, fish being grilled over charcoal, fried as tempura, or cut into sushi.
Perhaps because I was not myself that morning it had been on the tip of my tongue to suggest beef and tetty pasties with pickled samphire for our supper.
Khefti thriftily had his cook pickle the rinds from his melons, in keeping with his parsimonious nature.
Sugar or a burly spoony-man to appear, he remembers being invited to see the pickled old aristocrat in his smoking-room, and there, over port, being read the terms of the marriage of Agnes Unwin to William Rackham, Esquire.
Long rows of cases stood here, full of whortleberry jam, cranberries, syrup, cream, sugar, and pickles.
Petrie kept the guardsmen covered, Adelaide dressed Pickles in a short blue dress, and sandals.