pickles
See also: Pickles
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pickles
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pickles (uncountable)
- (colloquial) Nonsense; folly.
- Synonyms: gammon, gammon and pickles, tripe, tripe and onions
References edit
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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pickles
- third-person singular simple present indicative of pickle
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from English pickles, itself from Middle Dutch pekel (“brine”).
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pickles m (uncountable)
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pickles m (uncountable)
- pickle (pickled vegetable)
Further reading edit
- “pickles”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English pickles.
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pickles m (invariable)
- Alternative form of picles
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Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English pickles.
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pickles m pl (plural only)