gherkin
Plural: gherkins
Noun
- A small pickled cucumber, often used as a condiment.
- any of various small cucumbers pickled whole
- small prickly cucumber
- A small cucumber, often pickled whole.
- Pickled cucumber regardless of size; a pickle
- The penis.
Name
- Alternative letter-case form of Gherkin.
Examples
- He found GHERKIN to be a surprisingly zesty play, adding flavor to the game.
Origin / Etymology
From a form of Dutch gurk, an archaic variant of augurk (“small pickled cucumber”), from Low German, from Middle Low German agurke, augurke, probably via Slavic (compare Polish ogórek), from Byzantine Greek ἀγγούριον (angoúrion, “cucumber”). The underlying Dutch form may be a diminutive (gurkijn) or perhaps more probably the plural (gurken), which was then associated with the English suffix -kin (itself incidentally from Dutch or Low German). Compare German Gurke.
Scrabble Score: 15
gherkin: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgherkin: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
gherkin: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 16
gherkin: valid Words With Friends Word