Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to pickle
Participle: pickled
Gerund: pickling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | pickle |
| you | pickle |
| he;she;it | pickles |
| we | pickle |
| you | pickle |
| they | pickle |
Perfect
| I | have pickled |
| you | have pickled |
| he;she;it | has pickled |
| we | have pickled |
| you | have pickled |
| they | have pickled |
Past
| I | pickled |
| you | pickled |
| he;she;it | pickled |
| we | pickled |
| you | pickled |
| they | pickled |
Pluperfect
| I | had pickled |
| you | had pickled |
| he;she;it | had pickled |
| we | had pickled |
| you | had pickled |
| they | had pickled |
Future
| I | will pickle |
| you | will pickle |
| he;she;it | will pickle |
| we | will pickle |
| you | will pickle |
| they | will pickle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have pickled |
| you | will have pickled |
| he;she;it | will have pickled |
| we | will have pickled |
| you | will have pickled |
| they | will have pickled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | pickle |
| you | pickle |
| he;she;it | pickle |
| we | pickle |
| you | pickle |
| they | pickle |
Perfect
| I | have pickled |
| you | have pickled |
| he;she;it | have pickled |
| we | have pickled |
| you | have pickled |
| they | have pickled |
Imperfect
| I | pickled |
| you | pickled |
| he;she;it | pickled |
| we | pickled |
| you | pickled |
| they | pickled |
Pluperfect
| I | had pickled |
| you | had pickled |
| he;she;it | had pickled |
| we | had pickled |
| you | had pickled |
| they | had pickled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would pickle |
| you | would pickle |
| he;she;it | would pickle |
| we | would pickle |
| you | would pickle |
| they | would pickle |
Perfect
| I | would have pickled |
| you | would have pickled |
| he;she;it | would have pickled |
| we | would have pickled |
| you | would have pickled |
| they | would have pickled |
Imperative
| you | pickle |
| we | Let's pickle |
| you | pickle |
Verbs conjugated like 'pickle'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'pickle'
fickle,
prickle,
sickle,
tickle,
brickle,
buckle,
cackle,
cockle,
eckle,
hackle,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
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”). See: Frisian, Saterlandic 'Piekele'.
Verbs referencing "pickle"
Irish
picil, German, old spelling
pökeln, Swedish
pickla.
Sample Sentences
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We pickled the remainder of the crop.
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These cucumbers pickle very well.
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The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning.
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You can now restore the pickled data. If you like, close your Python interpreter and open a new instance, to convince yourself […] [2005, Peter Norton, et al: Beginning Python:]
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To illustrate how this would work in practice, consider a field designed to store and retrieve a pickled copy of any arbitrary Python object. [2008, Marty Alchin, Pro Django:]
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On Wednesday 26 May, […] I had [an enslaved man] flogged and pickled and then made Hector shit in his mouth. […] In July, […] Gave [another enslaved man] a moderate whipping, pickled him well, made Hector shit in his mouth, […] [1756, Thomas Thistlewood, diary, quoted in 2001, Glyne A. Griffith, Caribbean Cultural Identities, Bucknell University Press, page 38]
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Naval seamen could also be keel-hauled, ducked, pickled, and flogged around the fleet.
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[elsewhere, page 93, the book explains:] A pickled man had his flogged back washed with vinegar. [2016, Christopher P. Magra, Poseidon's Curse: British Naval Impressment and Atlantic Origins of the American Revolution, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 70:]