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# pickled

«pickled» in Mova's school dictionary: **Pickled food has been kept in vinegar or salty water so…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (pickled); verb (pickle, pickles, pickled, pickling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Pickled food has been kept in vinegar or salty water so it lasts a long time and tastes sour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pickled/#m1)

2) (verb) To pickle food is to keep it in vinegar or salt water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pickled/#m2)

3) (slang, old-fashioned) Pickled can mean drunk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pickled/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and food lessons it describes onions, cucumbers (gherkins), beetroot and eggs; in science and history it shows how people kept food before fridges, because vinegar and salt stop germs growing. Phrases: pickled onions, pickled herring, pickled in vinegar.

### examples

- I love pickled onions with cheese. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pickled/#x1)
- Gran pickled the beetroot from her garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pickled/#x2)
- Pickled cucumbers are called gherkins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pickled/#x3)
- Vinegar stops pickled food going bad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pickled/#x4)
- The museum kept animals pickled in jars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pickled/#x5)
- (slang) Uncle Pete was a bit pickled after the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pickled/#x6)
- We pickled red cabbage in class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pickled/#x7)

### note

Past form of «pickle»; one «l» before «-ed» (pickled). «In a pickle» is a different idiom meaning in trouble. «Pickled» for drunk is joking, not polite.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pickled» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pickled/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.