Word.ws English Dictionary

quickle

quickle verb: to pickle (food) rapidly, without the need for long storage.

Verb

quickle (third-person singular simple present quickles, present participle quickling, simple past and past participle quickled)

  1. (informal, transitive) To pickle (food) rapidly, without the need for long storage.
    • Quickly pickled radishes—or Quickled Radishes—are an easy peasy, tart and tangy way to use up the radishes that are absolutely everywhere during the summer.2020, Rebecca Lindamood, The Ultimate Guide to Vegetable Side Dishes
    • In this recipe, we're going to push the tartness and sweetness to the max by quickling the mango with lime juice.2021, Yewande Komolafe, Waffles + Mochi: Get Cooking!, page 56

Noun

quickle (plural quickles)

  1. (informal) A pickle produced by this process.

Forms of quickle

Verb
third-person singular presentquickles
present participlequickling
past participlequickled
pastquickled
Noun
pluralquickles

Origin of quickle

Blend of quick + pickle.

Questions about quickle

What does quickle mean?
Quickle means to pickle (food) rapidly, without the need for long storage.
What part of speech is quickle?
Quickle can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of quickle?
The past tense of quickle is quickled.

Words near quickle in the dictionary

  1. quickhatches
  2. quickie
  3. quickies
  4. quicking
  5. quickish
  6. quickle
  7. quickled
  8. quickles
  9. quickley
  10. quicklier
  11. quickliest

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: quickle (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “quickle.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/quickle. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.