pickled

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Trinculo says he has been so pickled, that is drunk, that the flies will not blow him.

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  1. adjective Preserved in or treated with pickle.
  2. adjective Slang Intoxicated; drunk.

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  • This consisted of a variety of fish and mollusks -- pickled, smoked, dried -- as well as several kinds of weedy vegetables, accompanied by a gray crumbly algae-based bread. —  F ;SF; - vol 088 issue 06 - June 1995
  • Anything it touched would be pickled, and anything that tried to eat it would find it disgustingly bad tasting. —  Volk
  • PICKLE BRINED SNAP BEANS More subtle than vinegar-pickled green beans, this recipe is adapted from Joy of Pickling by Linda Ziedrich (Harvard Common Press, 1998), who says to use the freshest green beans you —  WN.com - Articles related to De Niro and the Celebrity Restaurant Curse
  • Summer salad, which is primarily lightly-pickled cucumbers and onions, involves peeling and slicing up cukes and onions and immersing them for an hour in a —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • - Aged, dried, smoked, pickled or processed fish or meats (I.E. bologna, salami, pepperoni, herring, etc.) - Soy sauce —  Purpleocity.net
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pickled:   pickle ·  pickles
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/ˈpɪkld/
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