Pronounced: POO-bah, noun
Notes: You probably know this word, but do you know the origin?
Yesterday’s word
The word pilgarlic means
- a bald heard; or a bald-headed man
- a man looked upon with humorous contempt or mock pity
First usage
Our word came into English in the early to mid-1500s
Background / Comments
The first definition above is labeled “old-fashioned” in some places, and “obsolete” in others. The origin is interesting; it literally means “hair like a peeled garlic” – from the Latin word pilus (hair). In earlier English, our word was a phrase: “pyllyd garleke”.
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