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pickle

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1. pickle - Noun

2. pickle - Verb

3. Pickle - Proper noun

Meaning

See Picle.

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

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

Any article of food which has been preserved in brine or in vinegar.

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.

A troublesome child; as, a little pickle.

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

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

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He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle. Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Hunger is the best pickle. Benjamin Franklin

Pickle jars are just pickle jars, and pickles are just pickles. Regina Spektor

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. Ambrose Bierce

I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too. Dr. Seuss

Perhaps most people in the world aren't trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It's all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real pickle. You'd better remember that. People actually prefer not being free? Haruki Murakami

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