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词汇 gherkin
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Definition of gherkin in English:

gherkin

noun ˈɡəːkɪnˈɡərkən
  • 1The small green fruit of a plant related to the cucumber, used for pickling.

    小黄瓜;(做泡菜用的)嫩黄瓜

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Fresh cucumbers and gherkins, canned vegetables, and sunflower oil, exported within the fixed quotas, are exempt from custom duties.
    • Serve with salad, gherkins and cold sliced cured meats and ham.
    • When served with sliced charcuterie, gherkins, olives and bread, this is one thing I would rather eat than almost anything else.
    • Serve as a starter or party opener with dishes of green and black olives, gherkins, a dip with potato chips and a glass of chilled dry Muscat.
    • Then make up a tartare sauce of mayonnaise, horseradish, chopped capers, red onions, gherkins and chives, and get dunking.
    • The gherkins, dills and cornichons are used almost exclusively for pickles.
    • Worryingly, he tries to enter a debate on cucumbers and gherkins, which is the sort of discussion we know just ends in tears.
    • Bring to the boil and when it thickens add a nice spoon of good hot mustard and finish the sauce off with chopped gherkins if you like and some capers.
    • That was a thick baguette, holed out and stuffed with ham, cheese, gherkins, parsley, cream cheese and boiled eggs, all chopped up.
    • You should be able to see ingredients like gherkins and capers in tartare sauce.
    • Serve the steaks on a plate, place an onion ring on each of them and fill it with peppers, parsley and gherkins.
    • A good Saturday lunch with toast, gherkins and fat black olives.
    • Dill and gherkins seem to cut the richness of oily fish such as salmon, and make a good complement to hot-smoked salmon.
    • For home-made tartare sauce, add some finely chopped parsley, capers and gherkins.
    • Top with the sliced tomatoes, add more ketchup, then add the gherkins.
    • For the tartare sauce, place the gherkins, egg white and capers in a bowl.
    • The bold Jamie adds them to his salsa verde, a kicking green sauce which he makes from parsley, mint, basil, anchovies, capers, garlic and chopped gherkins.
    • Over the past couple of weeks I've developed a penchant for quails eggs with mini gherkins, dipped in rock salt.
    • They use the real gherkins, not just ordinary cucumbers.
    • To make the piccalilli, mix the gherkins, cauliflower (broken into very small florets), and red pepper.
  • 2The trailing plant that bears gherkins.

    Cucumis anguria, family Cucurbitaceae

Origin

Early 17th century: from Dutch augurkje, gurkje, diminutive of augurk, gurk, from Slavic, based on medieval Greek angourion 'cucumber'.

Rhymes

firkin, jerkin, merkin, Perkin

Definition of gherkin in US English:

gherkin

nounˈɡərkənˈɡərkən
  • 1The small green fruit of a plant related to the cucumber, used for pickling.

    小黄瓜;(做泡菜用的)嫩黄瓜

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Over the past couple of weeks I've developed a penchant for quails eggs with mini gherkins, dipped in rock salt.
    • Worryingly, he tries to enter a debate on cucumbers and gherkins, which is the sort of discussion we know just ends in tears.
    • Top with the sliced tomatoes, add more ketchup, then add the gherkins.
    • Bring to the boil and when it thickens add a nice spoon of good hot mustard and finish the sauce off with chopped gherkins if you like and some capers.
    • The gherkins, dills and cornichons are used almost exclusively for pickles.
    • You should be able to see ingredients like gherkins and capers in tartare sauce.
    • For the tartare sauce, place the gherkins, egg white and capers in a bowl.
    • Then make up a tartare sauce of mayonnaise, horseradish, chopped capers, red onions, gherkins and chives, and get dunking.
    • For home-made tartare sauce, add some finely chopped parsley, capers and gherkins.
    • Fresh cucumbers and gherkins, canned vegetables, and sunflower oil, exported within the fixed quotas, are exempt from custom duties.
    • Serve the steaks on a plate, place an onion ring on each of them and fill it with peppers, parsley and gherkins.
    • To make the piccalilli, mix the gherkins, cauliflower (broken into very small florets), and red pepper.
    • They use the real gherkins, not just ordinary cucumbers.
    • Dill and gherkins seem to cut the richness of oily fish such as salmon, and make a good complement to hot-smoked salmon.
    • Serve as a starter or party opener with dishes of green and black olives, gherkins, a dip with potato chips and a glass of chilled dry Muscat.
    • A good Saturday lunch with toast, gherkins and fat black olives.
    • Serve with salad, gherkins and cold sliced cured meats and ham.
    • When served with sliced charcuterie, gherkins, olives and bread, this is one thing I would rather eat than almost anything else.
    • That was a thick baguette, holed out and stuffed with ham, cheese, gherkins, parsley, cream cheese and boiled eggs, all chopped up.
    • The bold Jamie adds them to his salsa verde, a kicking green sauce which he makes from parsley, mint, basil, anchovies, capers, garlic and chopped gherkins.
  • 2The trailing plant that bears gherkins.

    Cucumis anguria, family Cucurbitaceae

Origin

Early 17th century: from Dutch augurkje, gurkje, diminutive of augurk, gurk, from Slavic, based on medieval Greek angourion ‘cucumber’.

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