gherkin

Etymology

From a form of Dutch gurk, an archaic variant of augurk (“small pickled cucumber”), from Low German, from Middle Low German agurke, augurke, probably via Slavic (compare Polish ogórek), from Byzantine Greek ἀγγούριον (angoúrion, “cucumber”). The underlying Dutch form may be a diminutive (gurkijn) or perhaps more probably the plural (gurken), which was then associated with the English suffix -kin (itself incidentally from Dutch or Low German). Compare German Gurke.

noun

  1. A small cucumber, often pickled whole.
  2. (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
    “Yes, daddy,” I moaned, lying big-time as his finger played in my sudsy pussy. “Say please,” he ordered, taking my hand to circle around his gherkin. 2010, Niobia Bryant, Live and Learn
    His gherkin was doing the tent dance, and he couldn't have been prouder. 2011, James Herbert Edwards, The Guardian Projects: Book Two, page 241

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