Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.
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- noun archaic A
bald -headed person; a pitiable or foolish person.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Those who had come to know him regarded Jack as pilgarlic.
Never Sated Michael J. Solender 2010
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He is not the pettifogging pilgarlic of popular conception: he is a devoted servant of letters, willing to take his thirty or forty dollars a week, willing to suffer the _peine forte et dure_ of his profession in the knowledge of honest duty done, writing terse and marrowy little essays on manuscripts, which are buried in the publishers 'files.
Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923
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So don't I, quoth Panurge; poor pilgarlic is fain to make everybody's time his own; if they have time, I find time.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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After this, we e'en jogged to bed for that night; but the devil a bit poor pilgarlic could sleep one wink -- the everlasting jingle-jangle of the bells kept me awake whether I would or no.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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So don’t I, quoth Panurge; poor pilgarlic is fain to make everybody’s time his own; if they have time, I find time.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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After this, we e’en jogged to bed for that night; but the devil a bit poor pilgarlic could sleep one wink — the everlasting jingle-jangle of the bells kept me awake whether I would or no.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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So don’t I, quoth Panurge; poor pilgarlic is fain to make everybody’s time his own; if they have time, I find time.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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After this, we e’en jogged to bed for that night; but the devil a bit poor pilgarlic could sleep one wink — the everlasting jingle-jangle of the bells kept me awake whether I would or no.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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"In these circles, a word like ` pilgarlic 'can come in handy.
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Besides being a real word in the dictionary that means a bald-headed man, ` pilgarlic 'is to ` bald' as ` statesman 'is to ` political hack.'"
slumry commented on the word pilgarlic
Ha ha: "peeled garlic" with the now-obsolete meaning of a baldheaded man.
July 14, 2007