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Meaning of pickled herring

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

pickled

Pronunciation:

verb

Definitions

  1. To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.

    Example: These cucumbers pickle very well.

  2. To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.

    Example: The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning.

  3. (in the Python programming language) To serialize.

  4. To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.

verb

Definitions

  1. To eat sparingly.

  2. To pilfer.

adjective

Definitions

  1. Preserved by pickling.

  2. Drunk.