pickles
See also: Pickles
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɪkəlz/
Noun
pickles
- plural of pickle
Noun
pickles (uncountable)
- (colloquial) Nonsense; folly.
- Synonyms: gammon, gammon and pickles, tripe, tripe and onions
References
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
Verb
pickles
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pickle
Anagrams
- pelicks
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English pickles, itself from Middle Dutch pekel (“brine”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
pickles m (uncountable)
- (Belgium) piccalilli
Synonyms
- piccalilly
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi.kœls/
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Noun
pickles m (uncountable)
- pickle (pickled vegetable)
Further reading
- “pickles”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
Noun
pickles m pl (plural only)
- pickles