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pilgarlic

[ pil-gahr-lik ]

noun

  1. a person regarded with mild or pretended contempt or pity.
  2. Obsolete. a baldheaded man.


pilgarlic

/ ±èɪ±ôˈɡɑ˱ôɪ°ì /

noun

  1. obsolete.
    a bald head or a man with a bald head
  2. dialect.
    a pitiable person
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of pilgarlic1

1520–30; earlier pyllyd garleke literally, peeled garlic, originally metaphor for a bald man, whose head is compared to a peeled garlic bulb. See pill 2, garlic
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of pilgarlic1

C16: literally: peeled garlic
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It was in vain that he argued with his wife in all known languages and in some that are unknown, for, as she said, she only knew two languages, the one of Touraine and the other of the Stick, and this second she taught Panurge per modum passionis—that is by beating him, and this so thoroughly that poor Pilgarlic was sore from head to foot.

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The stately white swans turned their arching necks interrogatively toward the splashing, and the brown ducks, Peezletree and Pilgarlic, quacked and gobbled softly to each other among the lily-pads.

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The light one shall be Peezletree and the dark one Pilgarlic.

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Apparently, all the negro cooks, teamsters, officers' servants, and roustabouts from the adjoining camps39 had been gathered there, with Groundhog, Pilgarlic, and similar specimens of the white teamsters among them and leading them.

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"Seen the ghost of a dead rebel, Pilgarlic?"

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