dag vs pickle

dag

verb
  • To skewer food, for roasting over a fire 

  • To be misty; to drizzle. 

  • To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation. 

  • To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags 

noun
  • A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung. 

  • A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground. 

  • A skewer. 

  • A misty shower; dew. 

  • A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire. 

  • The unbranched antler of a young deer. 

  • One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd. 

  • A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V. 

intj
  • Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier. 

pickle

verb
  • To eat sparingly. 

  • To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution. 

  • To pilfer. 

  • To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid. 

  • To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment. 

  • To serialize. 

noun
  • A difficult situation; peril. 

  • A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain. 

  • A mildly mischievous loved one. 

  • A penis. 

  • A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale, rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their colour. 

  • In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted. 

  • Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish. 

  • A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown 

  • A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.) 

  • A pipe for smoking methamphetamine. 

  • The brine used for preserving food. 

  • A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit, a few. Usually in partitive construction, frequently without "of"; a single grain or kernel of wheat, barley, oats, sand or dust. 

  • A rundown. 

  • A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup. 

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