— 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 ]