pilgarlic
Americannoun
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a person regarded with mild or pretended contempt or pity.
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Obsolete. a baldheaded man.
noun
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obsolete a bald head or a man with a bald head
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dialect a pitiable person
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Origin of pilgarlic
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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