pickles

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪkəlz/

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pickles

1. plural of pickle

pickles (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) Nonsense; folly.

   Synonyms: gammon, gammon and pickles, tripe, tripe and onions

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

pickles

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of pickle

• pelicks, spickle

Borrowed from English pickles, itself from Middle Dutch pekel (“brine”).

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pickles m (uncountable)

1. (Belgium) piccalilli

• piccalilly

• IPA^(key): /pi.kœls/

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pickles m (uncountable)

1. pickle (pickled vegetable)

• “pickles”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from English pickles.

pickles m (invariable)

1. alternative form of picles

Unadapted borrowing from English pickles.

pickles m pl (plural only)

1. pickles

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