Antonyms for pickled


Grammar : Adj
Spell : pik-uh ld
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɪk əld


Definition of pickled

Origin :
  • "drunk," American English slang, 1900, figurative past participle adjective from pickle (v.).
  • adj drunk
Example sentences :
  • Thicken it with the pickled nasturtians and send it to table in a boat.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • Then why does your face look like a huge piece of pickled beef?
  • Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • He discovered her quaintly with a jar of pickled frogs in her hand.
  • Extract from : « The Innocent Adventuress » by Mary Hastings Bradley
  • Fill a stewpan with large flap mushrooms, that are not worm-eaten, and the skins and fringe of such as have been pickled.
  • Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
  • If this water was salt we'd be as snug as a couple of pickled mackerel.
  • Extract from : « Thankful's Inheritance » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • Her skin was like a pickled apple's; her expression sour, her voice sharp.
  • Extract from : « The Martian Cabal » by Roman Frederick Starzl
  • In the center of this sandwich put the soft parts of six pickled oysters.
  • Extract from : « Sandwiches » by Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer
  • If you must have it, let it be like the pickled herrings and the paving-stones—so much of pure loss.'
  • Extract from : « Jack Hinton » by Charles James Lever
  • The salt of the sea had not only pickled them, but had penetrated into their very bones.
  • Extract from : « The Shellback's Progress » by Walter Runciman
  • Pickled the tongues an' sold 'em for three cents apiece, by gum.
  • Extract from : « Oh, You Tex! » by William Macleod Raine

Synonyms for pickled

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