Dictionary Entry
pickle
pickle is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See Picle. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
See Picle.
- 2transitive verb
A solution of salt and water, in which fish, meat, etc., may be preserved or corned; brine.
- 3transitive verb
Vinegar, plain or spiced, used for preserving vegetables, fish, eggs, oysters, etc.
- 4transitive verb
Any article of food which has been preserved in brine or in vinegar.
- 5transitive verb
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.
- 6transitive verb
A troublesome child; as, a little pickle.
- 7transitive verb
To preserve or season in pickle; to treat with some kind of pickle; as, to pickle herrings or cucumbers.
- 8transitive verb
To give an antique appearance to; -- said of copies or imitations of paintings by the old masters.
- 9noun
vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar
- 10noun
informal terms for a difficult situation
"he got into a terrible fix"
"he made a muddle of his marriage"
- 11verb
preserve in a pickling liquid
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