| Front | pilgarlic \pil-GAR-lik\ |
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| Back | noun 1. A bald-headed person. 2. A man looked upon with humorous contempt or mock pity. [Literally peeled garlic, from pill (to peel) + garlic. Earliest documented use: 1529.] "With his cherubic face, big blue eyes, pilgarlic pate, steel-rimmed glasses, and shuffling gait, Horace Greeley looked more like a character out of a Dickens novel than a presidential hopeful." - Paul F. Boller Jr.; Presidential Campaigns; Oxford University Press; 2004. |
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