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Definition: Gherkin |
GherkinNoun1. Any of various small cucumbers pickled whole. 2. Small prickly cucumber. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gherkin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Gherkin is the immature fruit of the cucumber. It is the most common vegetable to be found as pickle.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Gherkin."
Crosswords: Gherkin |
| English words defined with "gherkin": Girkin ♦ Sea girkin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gherkin": Cucumber Time. (references) |
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| "The Gherkin 1" by Richard Hewitt Commentary: "Swiss Re's new building AKA The Gherkin, London UK." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Gherkin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gherkin" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "gherkin": pickled gherkin ♦ sea gherkin. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "gherkin": gherkin-eating. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gherkin | 18 |
slow gherkin | 9 |
gherkin lyrics slow | 3 |
gherkin london | 3 |
gherkin pickle | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gherkin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | agurkie, agurk. (various references) | |
Albanian | trangull i vogël. (various references) | |
Arabic | الجيركين خيار صغير. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | малка руска краставичка. (various references) | |
Czech | okurka nakládaèka. (various references) | |
Dutch | augurk. (various references) | |
Esperanto | kukumeto. (various references) | |
Farsi | خیارترشی (Pickle), خیارریز. (various references) | |
Finnish | suolakurkku (pickled cucumber). (various references) | |
French | cornichon. (various references) | |
German | gurke (conk, cucumber, hooter), essiggurke (pickle), Salzgurke (pickled gherkin). (various references) | |
Greek | αγγουράκι. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מלפפון קטן. (various references) | |
Hungarian | ecetes uborka (pickled cucumber), anguriauborka. (various references) | |
Indonesian | ketimun. (various references) | |
Italian | cetriolino. (various references) | |
Manx | gerkyn. (various references) | |
Norwegian | sylteagurk. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | erkinghay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pepino pequeno, pepino em conserva. (various references) | |
Romanian | castravecior. (various references) | |
Russian | корнишон (cuke). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vrsta krastavca. (various references) | |
Spanish | pepino (cucumber, cuke). (various references) | |
Sranan | angorki. (various references) | |
Swedish | liten gurka. (various references) | |
Thai | แตงขนาดเล็กมีสีเหลือง. (various references) | |
Turkish | turşuluk hıyar, salatalık (cucumber). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | корнішон (bur). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gherkin": gherkins. (additional references) | |
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"Gherkin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chirkin, Egberink, geikien, Gerkang, gerkin, gerwin, Gharaib, Gharib, Ghering, ghrin, Ghurka, Guerino. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "gherkin" (pronounced 'Gher"kin'): Brodekin, Bumkin, Bumpkin, Buskin, Catkin, Cuskin, Firkin, Girkin, lambkin, Likin, limpkin, Lordkin, Malkin, Mawkin, merkin, Miskin, Morkin, mousekin, Napkin, Perkin, Pipkin, Princekin, Pumpkin, Punkin, Romekin, Rumkin, siskin, Welkin, Wolfkin, Yakin. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-i-k-n-r" | |
-1 letter: hinger, nigher. | |
-2 letters: eking, hiker, hinge, inker, neigh, reign, reink, renig. | |
-3 letters: gien, gink, girn, grin, heir, hern, hike, hire, keir, kern, kier, kine, king, kirn, nigh, rein, ring, rink. | |
-4 letters: eng, erg, ern, gen, ghi, gie, gin, hen, her, hie, hin, ink, ire, irk, keg, ken, khi, kin, kir, reg, rei, rig, rin. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-h-i-k-n-r" | |
+1 letter: gherkins. | |
+2 letters: hankering, harkening, hunkering, kashering, koshering, shrieking, shrinkage. | |
+3 letters: checkering, hearkening, kingfisher, rechecking, rethinking, shrinkages, skreeghing, skreighing, whickering. | |
+4 letters: checkrowing, huckstering, kingfishers, nightwalker, prechecking, resketching. | |
+5 letters: benchmarking, breathtaking, checkmarking, earthshaking, forechecking, freethinking, hyperlinking, nightwalkers, overthinking, pathbreaking, phrasemaking, preshrinking, schnorkeling, shipwrecking. | |
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