Pickle

[David Metevia]

It never crossed my mind that this would be regional.  Thanks.

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Joseph Salmons<jsalmons at wisc.edu> wrote:
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> Don't bother with OED but do check the Dictionary of American Regional
> English ... it's "widespread, but chiefly Nth, N Midl" with a map
> (showing a very broad distribution). This usage is definitely around
> in Wisconsin, including Madison.
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> On Aug 21, 2009, at 7:21 AM, Steve Kl. wrote:
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>> Out of curiosity, what part of Michigan are you from (I assume
>> Michigan
>> because of 'chartermi')?
>> I grew up southwest of Flint, my grandparents were farmers. My
>> father had a
>> huge garden and we grew tons of cukes, but I never heard any of them
>> call
>> small cucumbers pickles. Are you up near the Thumb? For some reason
>> I have a
>> vague recollection that were large cucumber crops up that way, and I'm
>> wondering if this is a term that people who deal with cucumbers in
>> large
>> quantities used.
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>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:03 AM, David Metevia <djmetevia at chartermi.net
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>>> I don't have access to the OED at the moment, but looked at m-w.com
>>> for a definition of pickle.  In my part of the world, folks regularly
>>> refer to small size cucumbers as pickles.  A gardener grows these
>>> pickles; the farmer's market sells these pickles.  They are referring
>>> to the raw vegetable. Presumably this is an extension of the word as
>>> the intent is that the cucumbers will be further processed into
>>> pickles.
>>>
>>> Yet, the MW definition only gets as close to that meaning as the
>>> final
>>> product:
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>>> 3 : an article of food that has been preserved in brine or in
>>> vinegar;
>>> specifically : a cucumber that has been so preserved
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