sweet pickle

1. 1.

   pickle cured in brine and preserved in sugar and vinegar

   Broaderpickle

   Narrowerbread and butter pickle

Questions about sweet pickle

What does sweet pickle mean?

sweet pickle means "pickle cured in brine and preserved in sugar and vinegar".

Is sweet pickle a common word?

sweet pickle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.