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girkin

girkin is the obsolete form of gherkin.

Meaning of gherkin

Noun

gherkin (plural gherkins)

  1. A small cucumber, often pickled whole.
  2. (Ireland, UK) Pickled cucumber regardless of size; a pickle
  3. (slang) The penis.
    • “Even my gherkin is sorry, and it didn't talk shit about anybody," persists Adrian. The edge of Titus's mouth quivers in laughter.2008, E. Lockhart, Fly on the Wall

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Forms of girkin

pluralgirkins

Questions about girkin

What is girkin the obsolete form of?
Girkin is the obsolete form of gherkin.

Words near girkin in the dictionary

  1. girinka
  2. Giris
  3. girisopam
  4. girk
  5. girked
  6. girkin
  7. girking
  8. girkins
  9. girks
  10. girl
  11. girl band

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Adapted from Wiktionary: girkin (page history and authors); gherkin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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