pickledadj.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Pykled or bryned, muriaticus.

a1593 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta (1633) iv. H 4 b He liues vpon Pickled Grashoppers, and sauc'd Mushrumbs.

a1627 T. Middleton Chast Mayd in Cheape-side (1630) i. 8 My Wife..longs for nothing but pickled Coucombers.

1655 I. Walton Compl. Angler (ed. 2) ix. 231 Put them to your Carp, with four or five whole Onyons, twenty pickled Oysters, and three Anchovies.

1727 C. Threlkeld Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum sig. F 2 b The English use the pickled shoots like Sampire to stir up an Appetite.

1728 E. Smith Compl. Housewife (ed. 2) Index ix Onions, pickled, small.

1737 Smith's Compl. Housewife (ed. 8) 43 Strow upon your Cutlets pickled walnuts in quarters.

1757 W. Thompson Royal Navy-men's Advocate 9 Pickled, unpickled, and undrained Casks rolled away together.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxiii The maiden jumped for rapture at the sweet smell of the pickled cabbage.

1877 E. S. Dallas Kettner's Bk. of Table 423 Shalot Sauce is the same as what is called Sharp Sauce or Sauce Piquante, with this only difference—that to the latter there is added pickled gherkins.

1898 Westm. Gaz. 20 Jan. 7/2 The vessel was loaded with pickled sleepers.

1945 Sun (Baltimore) 22 Oct. 4/1 Hot-rolled pickled and cold rolled sheet deliveries run late into the second quarter next year.

1970 C. Kersh Aggravations of Minnie Ashe iii. 45 I have terrible dreams if I eat pickled cucumbers.

1974 J. Stubbs Painted Face i. 23 Trying..to banish the cheese and pickled onions from the table.

2002 E. A. Gargan River's Tale ii. 67 In the center of it was a glass jar of pickled and peppered vegetables.

1683 R. Dixon Canidia v. iv. 42 The Divels will one day crack their Crowns, Pickled Knaves, as e're wore Gowns.

1691 A. Gavin Frauds Romish Monks (ed. 3) 343 Most impudent and pickel'd youths.

1706 G. Farquhar Recruiting Officer v. vi. 72 His Boy Jack was..a pickled Dog, I shall never forget him.

1727 W. Somerville Fable in Occas. Poems 171 The Goods are stole, but not from thee, Two pickled Rogues well met.

1779 H. B. Dudley Flitch of Bacon i. 14 Kil. He seems a pickled kind of a fellow. Maj. Pickled!—I'll pickle him, a dog, I warrant you.

1806 T. Holcroft Vindictive Man iii. i. 31 Damned good story; show me off;..talked of by every body: That's he! There he goes! The deep one! The pickled dog!

1839 R. Dawes Nicx's Mate I. iii. 77 ‘I've heard of that man in England.’ ‘A pickled scamp—hic! that fellow,’ said Classon with great bitterness.

1864 A. B. Longstreet Master William Mitten iii. 34 My advice to you is, to have nothing to do with this man. If he is not a pickled villain, I'll give you my head for a foot-ball.

1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 195/2 Pickled dog (Provincial), term of contempt—rarely now heard.

1931 A. J. Cronin Hatter's Castle ii. ix. 368 Did you see that shot of mine, cocky?.. It was a—a regular nor'easter—a pickled ripsnorter.

1994 Scotsman (Nexis) 7 Dec. 16 Two years ago, fearing a pickled-dog approach to the project, a frothing partisan rose to point the finger at the incomer of 20 miles away.

1928 Times 5 Nov. 27/2 A very tastefully decorated House for Sale. Passenger lift. Pickled Oak Doors. Principal Rooms face South.

1946 J. W. Day Harvest Adventure 225 Here are no fakes of theatrical armour, no ‘pickled’ antiques of cunning fabrication.

1989 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman 29 Apr. c38/6 (advt.) Circular stairway, detailed crown molding, pickled cabinetry, ceramic tile flooring.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Sardella, a little pickled or salt fish like an anchoua, a sprat or a pilcher, called a sardell or sardine.

1692 Acts & Laws Assembly of Massachusetts 14 That all sorts of green or pickled Fish, Sturgeon, or Flesh that shall be put up for Transportation to a Forreign Market, shall be Searched, Surveyed and approved by a Sworn Packer.

1758 R. Griffiths Descr. Thames 256 Pickled Fish, is that boiled and steeped in a Pickle, made of Salt, Vinegar, &c. as Salmon, Cod, Herring, [etc.].

1887 Handbk. S. Afr. (S. W. Silver & Co.) (new ed.) 185 Shad, Sardyn. Used occasionally as pickled fish.

1918 DSG Bk. of Recipes (Grahamstown, S. Afr.) (ed. 3) 5 (heading) Pickled Fish... Mix maizena and curry powder in a little vinegar, and stir into boiling onion. Now place layers of fish and mixture into an earthenware pan. Serve cold.

1961 W. S. Davis Day in Old Rome vi. 106 Poor people eat salt fish or pickled fish, from little sardines to slices of the big cybium.

1988 F. Williams Cape Malay Cookbk. 7 Malay cooks..used the exotic spices of the land of their birth to create such well-known dishes as bobotie, sosaties and pickled fish.

2014 D. Jones Star Fish 210 Pickled fish is one of those dishes people gush about. It's so unique to Cape Town.

?1577 F. T. Debate Pride & Lowlines sig. Gi^v For feare of meeting with a pickled hearing, And mountaynes made of matters fryuolous.

1619 Pasquils Palinodia sig. A4 Or Registred what price a Cade of Sprats, And pickl'd Herrings, bare in such a yeare.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 47. ¶6 A Set of merry Drolls..whom every Nation calls by the Name of that Dish of Meat which it loves best. In Holland they are termed Pickled Herrings; in France, Jean Pottages; in Italy, Maccaronies; and in Great Britain, Jack Puddings.

1824 E. Fitzball Floating Beacon ii. i. 21 We should all have been drier than pickled herrings, not withstanding our ducking!

1996 Sunday Tel. 13 Oct. (Mag.) 14/3 Sherrin has a taste for recondite and slightly revolting ingredients: bone marrow, offal, black pudding, pickled herrings.