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pickled

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pick·led  (pkld)
adj.
1. Preserved in or treated with pickle.
2. Slang Intoxicated; drunk.
pickled
Adjective
1. (of food) preserved in a pickling liquid
2. Informal drunk
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.pickled - (used of foods) preserved in a pickling liquid
preserved - prevented from decaying or spoiling and prepared for future use


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Early in June it happened that Agafea Mihalovna, the old nurse and housekeeper, in carrying to the cellar a jar of mushrooms she had just pickled, slipped, fell, and sprained her wrist.
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On the tray was a bottle of herb wine, different kinds of vodka, pickled mushrooms, rye cakes made with buttermilk, honey in the comb, still mead and sparkling mead, apples, nuts (raw and roasted), and nut-and-honey sweets.
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The Wandle, the Mole, every little stream, was a heaped mass of red weed, in appearance between butcher's meat and pickled cabbage.
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