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Gherkin

2 stages from Dutch to English.

Today it means a small cucumber, especially one used for pickling
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Stage 1 of 2
augurken
Dutch · 1600s
"a small cucumber"
a small cucumber, ultimately from a Slavic word related to the word for unripe
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gherkin
English · 1660s
"a small cucumber used for pickling"
settled as the English word for the small pickling cucumber
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