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pickled

pickled

2.6
Food preserved in vinegar or salty water so it lasts longer
  • adjective
  • /ˈpɪkəld/
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  • For lunch, I enjoyed a sandwich topped with pickled cucumbers.
  • small pickled peppers
  • Pickled Chard Salad

I'm going to make a pickled tuna fish for you today.

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Examples

  • This is my Taco with egg and beef, homemade kimchi, and homemade pickled celery, jalapeno and radish.

  • These might be eaten raw, boiled, pickled or fried.

  • And then this one is a pickled red onion.

  • You know, I need some pickled things to make my my gut a happy place.

    Allana Davison

  • To add some of this and then some pickled ginger because I love ginger.

  • I'm going to make a pickled tuna fish for you today.

    Harvard University

  • Or a pickled piglet is the best thing on earth.

    Vanity Fair

  • She's going to do a video on pickled jalapenos.

  • They sent us like some onion relish, like pickled onion relish from Scotland or from Ireland or something.

    The Minimalists

  • She made a braised rabbit with olives, orange and pickled onions.

Synonyms

salt-cured
vspickled
1 3.8

Made with salt so meat or fish do not go bad

uses acidic or liquid preservation rather than dry salt treatment
brine-cured
vspickled
6.7

Meat or other food is soaked in salty water to keep it from spoiling

uses vinegar or other acidic liquids rather than only saltwater
cured
vspickled
3.2

Food preserved with salt, smoke, or drying

focuses on preservation in liquids like vinegar or brine rather than many methods
salted
vspickled
1.0

Food preserved with salt so it lasts longer

uses vinegar or other acidic liquids instead of only salt

Compounds

pickled herring
3 3.1

A herring kept in vinegar or salt water and eaten as food

How Sweet

gingerbread
27 1.0
ginger ale
38 2.0
pickled
2.6

Surface Forms

pickled positive

Morphology

pickled = pickle (transparent) = pickle + ed

Formed by the verb 'pickle' + the regular past-participle/adjectival suffix '-ed', and the food-preservation meaning is directly derived.

Etymology

Pickled comes from the old food process pickling, where people keep food in vinegar or salty water to 'preserve' it and give it a sharp, sour taste. So when something is pickled it has been kept in that sour liquid to last longer and taste strong.