pickle

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

An arch waggish fellow. In pickle, or in the pickling tub; in a salivation. There are rods in brine, or pickle, for him; a punishment awaits him, or is prepared for him. Pickle herring; the zany or merry andrew of a mountebank.

See jack pudding.

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