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Definition of pilgarlicky - 1 dictionary result

pil⋅gar⋅lic

  [pil-gahr-lik]
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–noun
1. a person regarded with mild or pretended contempt or pity.
2. Obsolete. a baldheaded man.
Origin:
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

Related forms:
pil⋅gar⋅lick⋅y, adjective
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