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 →

2) (verb) To pickle food is to keep it in vinegar or salt water. tree →

3) (slang, old-fashioned) Pickled can mean drunk. tree →

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 →
• Gran pickled the beetroot from her garden. tree →
• Pickled cucumbers are called gherkins. tree →
• Vinegar stops pickled food going bad. tree →
• The museum kept animals pickled in jars. tree →
• (slang) Uncle Pete was a bit pickled after the party. tree →
• We pickled red cabbage in class. tree →

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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.