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Definition of Pilgarlic
1. n. One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.
Definition of Pilgarlic
1. Noun. (archaic) A bald-headed person; a pitiable or foolish person. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pilgarlic
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Pilgarlic
1. One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used. Origin: Etymol. Uncertain. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pilgarlic
Literary usage of Pilgarlic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1872)
"My guide thus thrown out down the precipice swept, Charged the rail and the brook,
through the sedge as it crept; Close behind poor pilgarlic* in charging ..."
2. The Western Antiquary by William Henry Kearley Wright (1883)
"pilgarlic, Latham. Pilled-garlic, Johnson, lis explanation is a sneaking or
hen-hearted fellow. 'nl garlick, Chaucer. The word is common to all counties in ..."
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