pickled

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

pickled

1. simple past and past participle of pickle

Adjective

pickled (comparative more pickled, superlative most pickled)

1. Preserved by pickling.
   • 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:

     But Richmond […] appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw […] that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.

2. (slang) Drunk.

Synonyms

• (preserved):
• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk

Derived terms

• nonpickled
• pickled egg
• pickled pine
• pickled punk
• unpickled

Translations

preserved by pickling

Arabic: مُخَلَّل (muḵallal), كَبِيس (kabīs), طُرْشِيّ (ṭuršiyy) Chinese: Mandarin: 醃漬的 / 腌渍的 (yānzì de) Dutch: gepekeld (nl) Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: liemeen säilötty German: eingelegt (de) Greek: Ancient: ταριχηρός (tarikhērós), ὀξωτός (oxōtós) Italian: sottaceto (it) Japanese: 漬けた (つけた, tsuketa) Latin: muriaticus, horaeus Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: ки́сел (kísel), со́лен (sólen) Mongolian: дарсан (darsan) Polish: kiszony (pl) Russian: солёный (ru) (soljónyj), марино́ванный (ru) (marinóvannyj) Swedish: inlagd (sv) Ukrainian: соло́ний m (solónyj), марино́ваний m (marynóvanyj) Welsh: wedi'i biclo