Definition of Pickled

1. Adjective. (used of foods) preserved in a pickling liquid.

Similar to: Preserved

Definition of Pickled

1. a. Preserved in a pickle.

Definition of Pickled

1. Verb. (past of pickle) ¹

2. Adjective. preserved by pickling ¹

3. Adjective. (slang) drunk ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pickled

1. pickle [v] - See also: pickle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pickled

pickiest
pickily
pickin' and grinnin'
pickiness
pickinesses
picking and grinning
picking up
pickings
pickle-herring
pickle-herrings
pickle barrel
pickle relish
pickleball
pickled (current term)
pickled egg
pickled eggs
pickled herring
pickled onion
pickled onions
pickled pine
picklehead
pickleheads
pickleless
picklepuss
pickler
picklers
pickles
pickleweed

Literary usage of Pickled

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Sanitarian by Medico-Legal Society of New York (1887)
"It is a mistake to rate pickled pork as a valuable component of the ration in this region ; it is very valuable on the Canadian frontier all the year round, ..."

2. Modern American Tanning: A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Leather (1910)
"The pickled or processed India goatskin is receiving considerable attention from tanners of glazed kid. Many manufacturers who have succeeded in ..."

3. A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Vinegar: With Special by William Theodore Brannt (1914)
"pickled Mushrooms.—Clean and trim off at the bottom young small mushrooms and free them ... pickled Peas—The peas are treated like beans and cauliflower. ..."

4. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1891)
"THE writer has recently made some experiments upon plates pickled in dilute nitric, hydrochloric, and sulphuric acids. Inasmuch as these experiments were a ..."

5. Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive by United States Congress. Senate (1852)
"... have become depots of vast quantities of dry and pickled fish for ... of August of that year, no drawback was allowed on foreign dried and pickled fish, ..."

6. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed Upon Principles of Economy and by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1824)
"pickled Lemons. To pickle red Cabbage. They should be small, and with thick rinds: rub them with a piece of flannel; then slit them half down in four ..."

7. Award of the Fishery Commission: Documents and Proceedings of the Halifax by Maurice Delfosse, Ensign Hosmer Kellogg, Alexander Tilloch Galt, United States Dept. of State (1878)
"But the freezing of the herring for food can only be done in cold weather, so that if the weather is not cold enough some of that is pickled, but not much ..."

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