simple past tense and past participle of pickle

Preserved by pickling. / (slang) Drunk.

plural of pickling

An instance of processing something in brine or other solution.

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

(Northern England, Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To eat sparingly. / (Northern England, Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To pilfer.

A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup. / (often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.

(Northern England, Scotland) A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)

In a difficult situation or a troubling quandary.

(colloquial) Nonsense; folly.