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pickle
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?kl?/
- Rhymes: -?k?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English pikel, pykyl, pekille, pigell (“spicy sauce served with meat or fish”), borrowed from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German pekel (“brine”). Cognate with Scots pikkill (“salt liquor, brine”), Saterland Frisian Piekele (“pickle, brine”), Dutch pekel (“pickle, brine”), Low German pekel, peckel, pickel, bickel (“pickle, brine”), German Pökel (“pickle, brine”).
Alternative forms
- pickel (obsolete and rare)
Noun
pickle (countable and uncountable, plural pickles)
- A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
- A pickle goes well with a hamburger.
- (often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
- A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.
- The brine used for preserving food.
- This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into.
- (informal) A difficult situation; peril.
- The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 194:
- I beg you, Miss Jones, to realize the pickle you're in.
- (endearing) A mildly mischievous loved one.
- (baseball) A rundown.
- Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.
- (uncountable) A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
- The boys played pickle in the front yard for an hour.
- (slang) A penis.
- (slang) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
- Load some shards in that pickle.
- (metalworking) A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale, rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their colour.
- In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.
Synonyms
- (penis): See also Thesaurus:penis
Derived terms
- in a pickle
- pickle switch
Descendants
- ? Dutch: pickles
- ? French: pickles
- ? Irish: picil
- ? Korean: ?? (pikeul)
- ? Spanish: pickles
- ? Welsh: picil
Translations
See also
- piccalilli
Verb
pickle (third-person singular simple present pickles, present participle pickling, simple past and past participle pickled)
- (transitive, ergative) To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
- We pickled the remainder of the crop.
- These cucumbers pickle very well.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pickle.
- (transitive) To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
- The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning.
- (programming) (in the Python programming language) To serialize.
- 2005, Peter Norton et al, Beginning Python:
- You can now restore the pickled data. If you like, close your Python interpreter and open a new instance, to convince yourself […]
- 2005, Peter Norton et al, Beginning Python:
- (historical) To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
- 1756, Thomas Thistlewood, diary, quoted in 2001, Glyne A. Griffith, Caribbean Cultural Identities, Bucknell University Press (?ISBN), page 38:
- On Wednesday 26 May, […] I had [an enslaved man] flogged and pickled and then made Hector shit in his mouth. […] In July, […] Gave [another enslaved man] a moderate whipping, pickled him well, made Hector shit in his mouth, […]
- 2016, Christopher P. Magra, Poseidon's Curse: British Naval Impressment and Atlantic Origins of the American Revolution, Cambridge University Press (?ISBN), page 70:
- Naval seamen could also be keel-hauled, ducked, pickled, and flogged around the fleet.
- [elsewhere, page 93, the book explains:] A pickled man had his flogged back washed with vinegar.
- Naval seamen could also be keel-hauled, ducked, pickled, and flogged around the fleet.
- 1756, Thomas Thistlewood, diary, quoted in 2001, Glyne A. Griffith, Caribbean Cultural Identities, Bucknell University Press (?ISBN), page 38:
Derived terms
- pickled
- pickling
Translations
Etymology 2
Perhaps from Scottish pickle, apparently from pick +? -le (diminutive suffix). Compare Scots pickil.
Noun
pickle (plural pickles)
- (Northern England, Scotland) A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
- (Northern England, Scotland) A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit, a few. Usually in partitive construction, frequently without "of"; a single grain or kernel of wheat, barley, oats, sand or dust.
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, "Thrawn Janet"
- […] ill things are like guid—they baith come bit by bit, a pickle at a time […]
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, "Thrawn Janet"
Verb
pickle (third-person singular simple present pickles, present participle pickling, simple past and past participle pickled)
- (Northern England, Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To eat sparingly.
- (Northern England, Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To pilfer.
Anagrams
- pelick
French
Etymology
English pickle
Noun
pickle m (plural pickles)
- pickle (kind of chutney popular in Britain)
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jam
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /?d?æm/
- (Southern England, Australia) IPA(key): /?d?æ?m/
- - fruit spread
- - verb
- Rhymes: -æm
- Homophone: jamb
Etymology 1
First attested in the early 18th c. as a verb meaning “to press, be pressed, be wedged in”. Eventually onomatopoeic, perhaps identical with Middle English cham (“to bite, to gnash one's teeth”), whence modern champ.
Noun
jam (countable and uncountable, plural jams)
- A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts.
- Synonyms: (US) conserve, jelly, preserve
- (countable) A difficult situation.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:difficult situation
- (countable) Blockage, congestion.
- (countable, popular music) An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
- (countable, by extension, informal) A song; a track.
- 2001, Jet (volume 100, number 22, page 25)
- The result is an outstanding assortment of sophisticated, sexy and hip-hop-tinged R&B grooves, ballads and party jams.
- 2001, Jet (volume 100, number 22, page 25)
- (countable, by extension) An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
- (uncountable, slang) That which one particularly prefers, desires, enjoys, or cares about.
- (countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
- (countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.
- (countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.
- (climbing, countable) Any of several maneuvers requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
- (Britain, slang) luck.
- (slang) sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Czech: džem
- ? Japanese: ??? (jamu)
- ? Korean: ? (jaem)
- ? Russian: ???? (džem)
- ? Serbo-Croatian: dž?m, ????
- ? Slovak: džem
Translations
See also
- jelly
- marmalade
Verb
jam (third-person singular simple present jams, present participle jamming, simple past and past participle jammed)
- To get something stuck, often (though not necessarily) in a confined space.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, 3rd edition, 1719, p. 226,[1]
- The Ship, which by its Building was Spanish, stuck fast, jaum’d in between two Rocks; all the Stern and Quarter of her was beaten to Pieces with the Sea […]
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, 3rd edition, 1719, p. 226,[1]
- To brusquely force something into a space; cram, squeeze.
- 1779, George Colman, Farewell Epilogue, spoken at Wynnstay after the representation of Cymbeline and The Spanish Barber, 22 January, 1779, in Prose on Several Occasions: Accompanied with Some Pieces in Verse, London: T. Cadel, 1787, Volume 3, p. 283,[2]
- Since the new post-horse tax, I dare engage
- That some folks here have travell’d in the Stage:
- Jamm’d in at midnight, in cold winter weather,
- The crouded passengers are glew’d together.
- 1779, George Colman, Farewell Epilogue, spoken at Wynnstay after the representation of Cymbeline and The Spanish Barber, 22 January, 1779, in Prose on Several Occasions: Accompanied with Some Pieces in Verse, London: T. Cadel, 1787, Volume 3, p. 283,[2]
- To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up"
- To block or confuse a broadcast signal.
- (baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
- (music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
- To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
- (roller derby) To attempt to score points.
- (nautical, transitive) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
- 1887, William Clark Russell, The Golden Hope
- It won't do to jam her,” answered Stone ;" but it might be worth findin' out if th' Hope won't lie closer than t' other can." Half a point ----"
- 1887, William Clark Russell, The Golden Hope
- (Canada, informal) To give up on a date or some joint endeavour; stand up, chicken out, jam out.
Synonyms
- ram
Derived terms
- (to squeeze into a small space): jam-pack
- jammer
- jam band
- jam session
Translations
Etymology 2
Persian or Hindi, meaning "garment, robe;" see ????? (“garment”). Related to pajamas.
Noun
jam (plural jams)
- (dated) A kind of frock for children.
Etymology 3
Noun
jam (plural jams)
- (mining) Alternative form of jamb
References
- jam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- jam at OneLook Dictionary Search
- jam in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- JMA, Maj, Maj., maj.
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *esmi, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ésmi (“I am, I exist”), identical with Ancient Greek ???? (eimí), Sanskrit ????? (ásmi), English am. Aorist qeshë from Proto-Indo-European *k?el- (“to turn, revolve”), with a semantic development similar to Germanic *werdan (“to become”), from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jam/
Verb
jam (first-person singular past tense qeshë, participle qenë)
- to be
Conjugation
References
Czech
Etymology
From Portuguese inhame or Spanish iñame, both likely of West African origin.
Noun
jam m
- yam (any Dioscorea vine)
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English jam.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??m/
- Hyphenation: jam
- Rhymes: -?m
Noun
jam m (plural jams, diminutive jammetje n)
- (chiefly Netherlands) jam (congealed sweet mixture of conserved fruits)
Synonyms
- confituur
- marmelade
Derived terms
- aardbeienjam
- jampot
- kersenjam
Esperanto
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin iam.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jam/
- Hyphenation: jam
- Audio:
Adverb
jam
- already
Garo
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
jam
- granary, storehouse
Highland Popoluca
Noun
jam
- lime
References
- Elson, Benjamin F.; Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)?[3] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., ?ISBN, page 74
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay jam, from Sanskrit ??? (y?ma, “time”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?d??am]
- Hyphenation: jam
Noun
jam (first-person possessive jamku, second-person possessive jammu, third-person possessive jamnya)
- hour (Time period of sixty minutes)
- clock (instrument to measure or keep track of time)
- (colloquial) time, particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something
- Synonyms: pukul, saat, waktu
Further reading
- “jam” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Interlingua
Adverb
jam (not comparable)
- already
Javanese
Etymology
Ultimately from Sanskrit ??? (y?ma)
Noun
jam
- clock
Latgalian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?jam/
- Hyphenation: jam
Pronoun
jam
- dative singular of jis
References
- Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, ?ISBN, page 37
Latin
Adverb
jam (not comparable)
- Alternative form of iam
References
- jam in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Lindu
Noun
jam
- time
- hour
- clock
Lithuanian
Pronoun
jam m
- (third-person singular) dative form of jis.
- 2007, Jurga (Jurga Šeduikyt?), Angelai
- Jo balti sparnai man tinka
- Jam savo šarvus dovanoju
- His white wings suit me
- I present to him my armor
- 2007, Jurga (Jurga Šeduikyt?), Angelai
Malay
Etymology
From Sanskrit ??? (y?ma, “time”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [d??am]
- Rhymes: -d??am, -am
Noun
jam (Jawi spelling ???, plural jam-jam, informal 1st possessive jamku, impolite 2nd possessive jammu, 3rd possessive jamnya)
- hour (Time period of sixty minutes)
- clock (instrument to measure or keep track of time)
Further reading
- “jam” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
North Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian j?. Cognate with West Frisian jimme
Pronoun
jam
- you (plural)
- your (plural)
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jam/
Noun
jam f
- genitive plural of jama
Pronoun
jam
- (informal, sometimes proscribed) Combined form of ja +? -m (first person singular pronoun + verb suffix).
Further reading
- jam in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Slovene
Noun
jam
- genitive dual/plural of jama
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /j??m/
Noun
jam n
- meow (sound of a cat)
Declension
Related terms
- jama
Anagrams
- Maj, maj
Welsh
Etymology
From English jam.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??am/
Noun
jam m (plural jamiau, not mutable)
- jam
- Synonym: cyffaith
Further reading
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “jam”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
West Frisian
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
jam c (plural jams)
- jam, fruit preserves
Alternative forms
- sjem
Further reading
- “jam (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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