The word pickle is related to a similar-sounding Dutch word, pekel, meaning “brine.” In the 1400s, a pickle was a spicy sauce. Soon the word came to refer to the salty or acidic used to preserve foods, and later to the foods themselves...
After Jonah moved from North Carolina to Grand Forks, North Dakota, his wife insisted the word he used wasn’t real when he described a plunger-style washing machine as souging clothes up and down. The verb souge, more commonly souse, is heard...
pickle back n.— «We do something called a “pickle back”—a shot of Jameson with a shot of pickle-juice brine—that is quickly becoming a signature.» —“Jenn James of the Rusty Knot Never Wants to Hear ’Hotel...