pickled
English
Adjective
pickled (comparative more pickled, superlative most pickled)
- Preserved by pickling.
- 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
- But Richmond […] appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw […] that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
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- (slang) Drunk.
Synonyms
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- (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk
Translations
preserved by pickling
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