pilgarlick

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(Galimatious - nonsense, pilgarlick - a poor wretch, phrontistery - thinking place, tintinabulate - ring or call).

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  1. A poor forsaken wretch: a vague term of reproach. [Low.] And there got he a knock, and down goes pilgarlick. Fletcher, Humorous Lieutenant, ii. 2.

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  • You visit, you dine abroad, you see friends; you pilgarlick; [14] you walk from Finglas, you a cat's foot. —  The Journal to Stella
  • (Galimatious - nonsense, pilgarlick - a poor wretch, phrontistery - thinking place, tintinabulate - ring or call). —  SpikeMagazine.com
  • Galimatious - nonsense, pilgarlick - a poor wretch, phrontistery - thinking place, tintinabulate - ring or call). —  SpikeMagazine.com
  • No matter, I can't help it; a ballad is my hobby-horse, which, though otherwise a simple sort of harmless idiotical beast enough, has yet this blessed headstrong property, that when once it has fairly made off with a hapless wight, it gets so enamoured with the tinkle-gingle, tinkle-gingle of its own bells, that it is sure to run poor pilgarlick, the bedlam jockey, quite beyond any useful point or post in the common race of men The following song I have composed for "Oran-gaoil," the Highland air that, you tell me in your last, you have resolved to give a place to in your book. —  The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
  • 14 "Soley" is probably a misreading for "sollah," a form often used by Swift for "sirrah," and "figgarkick" may be "pilgarlick" (a poor creature) in —  The Journal to Stella
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  1. from pill, v., + obj. garlic (formerly garlick). See to pill garlic, under pill. The word came to be applied, with the stress laid on pill with reference to pilled, bald, to lepers or to other persons who have become bald by disease, acquiring a particularly opprobrious meaning.
 

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