dill pickle
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1.6
- noun
- /dɪl ˈpɪkəl/
- US
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pepino en vinagre
- You just had pickle roll ups, corned beef, cream cheese and a dill pickle all rolled up together like sushi.
- dill pickle slices
- dill pickle spear
- dill pickle sandwich
Trying to imagine a life without fresh garden pesto or a crispy crunchy dill pickle.
- Trying to imagine a life without fresh garden pesto or a crispy crunchy dill pickle.
Examples
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She pulled out a jar of dill pickles and presented them to me with this comment: "These are good and crispy because I made 'em at the right time of the month."
Fiction book (1996) -
Already a plan was hatching: I'd finish the egg and order another, and with it another stein, then stand in line for a Thuringer sandwich on rye with a dill pickle.
Fiction book (1996) -
I like a good dill pickle now and then.
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Do you like dill pickles?
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You know, I wondered last week if you like dill pickles.
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Uh, maybe a crunchy dill pickle, please?
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Around the sandwich, there were French fries, some coleslaw, and a dill pickle.
Fiction book (1996) -
Some night this week, after the show, corned beef and potato salad, dill pickles, the whole bit.
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There are mounds of salami, ham, cheese, thin slices of onions, tomatoes, and dill pickles.
Fiction book (1991) -
I enjoy a dill pickle on my sandwich for extra crunch.
Synonyms
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1.0
A vegetable like a cucumber preserved in vinegar or salty water that you eat with food
5
3.1
A small cucumber pickled and eaten with food
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Morphology
The meaning 'a pickle flavored with dill' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'dill' (an herb) with 'pickle' (a preserved vegetable); a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a pickle seasoned with dill. This modifier+noun composition is a common, cross-linguistic pattern in which the first noun specifies the flavor or type of the second, so the phrase is immediately comprehensible.
Etymology
Dill pickle comes from a simple kitchen image: cooks put the herb dill into jars with cucumbers and salt water or vinegar to preserve them, so the pickles tasted like dill. That's why a dill pickle means 'a cucumber preserved in salt water or vinegar and flavored with dill'.