If you describe a child as a "pickle" what does it mean?

[princessosyth]

When ds was at his last nursery school his teacher described him as as a "pickle". She said that he was highly intelligent [proud emoticon] but also highly energetic. Ds has recently started at the state nursery attached to the primary school and his teacher also described him as being a right little "pickle". Is this a kind way of saying that he is a little sod?

cheeky,mischievous but in good cute way!

as in little monkey

Califrau - snap with my ds1! He's also a toerag, a wotsit, a tinker, a monkey and a so-and-so! But utterly adorable.

He terified his teachers in his first few weeks of school when he kept running out the classroom and hiding from them I think then he might have been a little sod but now he has settled in hes back to being just a pickle!

Another description of dd2 I was always a little about was " she's a real little character"

DS1 was also a pickle - the mother of one of his sisters' friends referred to him, aged about 5, as a "coughdrop"

(Was never quite sure about that either )

everyone has a "pickle"
it means imo interesting and unpredictable
my fave kind of children

I feel a little better now . Smartiejake - we also get the "little character" comments too! I suppose I just need to accept that ds is never going to be one of those children that are impeccibly [sp?] behaved, he is the total opposite in character to me - but thats no bad thing..

My ds (2.2) is a pickle. To me it means cheeky, cute and funny

oh pickle is a lovely word - I use it all the time to describe all kinds of things, nothing serious or bad. I think it means a lively,mischevious but not in a nasty way child - someone with a bit of sparkle and character !

'Naughty' but nice

bright happy gets into trouble but hard to be cross with because he is so adorable

naughty but nice

Oh sorry MB But great minds think alike!!

We called DS a pickle and sometimes still do

it is deffo a cute term rather than naughty

If someone gets into a pickle to us it means like a "spot of bother" like taking a left turn instead of a right when driving

"Oh no he was in a pickle"