The Clue
Pickled (6 letter answer)
The Answer
SOUSED
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Notes
The answer SOUSED is rarely seen, appearing only about once every 1500 puzzles.
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Definition
SOUSE as a verb:
1. (drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse) = cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face"
2. (dunk, dip, souse, plunge, douse) = immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate; "dip the garment into the cleaning solution"; "dip the brush into the paint"
3. (souse, soak, inebriate, hit it up) = become drunk or drink excessively
4. cook in a marinade; "souse herring"
SOUSED as an adjective:
1. (dunked, soused) = wet from being plunged into liquid; "a dunked doughnut"; "fell into the pool and came up soused"
2. (besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, potty, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tiddly, tiddley, tight, tipsy, wet) = very drunk