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pilgarlic

[pil-gahr-lik]

noun

a person regarded with mild or pretended contempt or pity.

Obsolete. a baldheaded man.

Origin:
1520–30; earlier pyllyd garleke literally, peeled garlic, orig. metaphor for a bald man, whose head is compared to a peeled garlic bulb. See pill², garlic

Related forms

pil·gar·lick·y, adjective

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pilgarlic (pɪlˈɡɑːlɪk)

—n
1.	obsolete a bald head or a man with a bald head
2.	dialect a pitiable person

[C16: literally: peeled garlic]

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