pickle – English noun declension

English noun forms of pickle

Noun: pickle
Singularpickle
Pluralpickles

Sample 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. [1955 October, Rex Stout, “Die Like a Dog”, in Three Witnesses, Bantam, published 1994, →ISBN, page 194:]
  • 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. [1867, Polly Stubbs, Nursery times; or, Stories about the little ones, by an old nurse, page 143:]
  • ... 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. [1885, Eleanor A. Bulley, Great Britain for little Britons, page 116:]
  • 'And now,' she said, 'what about that kiss my little pickle was going to give his old Auntie?' [1965, Eric Malpass, Morning's at seven, page 43:]
  • Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.
  • The boys played pickle in the front yard for an hour.
  • Load some shards in that pickle.

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: Middle English Nouns 'pikel', Dutch Nouns 'pekel', Icelandic Nouns 'pækill'.

Verbs referencing "pickle"

French Nouns pickle, Dutch Nouns pickles, Portuguese Nouns picle, Finnish Nouns pikkelssi, Irish Nouns picil.