cuke

Examples

• All

• Loose carrots, cherry tomatoes, pickling cukes.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Beans, beets, cukes, tomatoes, zucchini, and lots of fresh greens from the garden!

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• I grow and love the white cukes too.

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• Hey, Paul, look at these cukes.

  The Kids Are All Right (2010)

• Fresh-picked cukes will remain on the counter.

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• I made a lot of pickles with the last batch of cukes last month, and I will have pickles all winter long!

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• I store my cukes in the fridge all the time, and they usually last at least a week, but they are not refrigerated at the market, supermarket, or farmers' market.

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• Little Cukes—$3

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• It also depends on how cold the cukes were kept at the store—the less cold, the less damage.

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• In the summer, I love to eat fresh cukes in my salads.

Synonyms

C

cucumber

vscuke

88 1.0

A long green fruit with crisp watery flesh often eaten raw or pickled

is informal slang rather than the neutral standard term

G

gherkin

vscuke

5 3.1

A small cucumber pickled and eaten with food

is informal and refers to the general larger raw or pickled vegetable

How Big

cuke

• Informal

1 9.6

gherkin

5 3.1

Surface Forms

Etymology