PILGARLIC


Meaning of PILGARLIC in English

— pilgarlicky , adj.

/pil gahr"lik/ , n.

1. a person regarded with mild or pretended contempt or pity.

2. Obs. a baldheaded man.

[ 1520-30; earlier pyllyd garleke lit., peeled garlic, orig. metaphor for a bald man, whose head is compared to a peeled garlic bulb. See PILL 2 , GARLIC ]

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