Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A poor forsaken wretch: a vague term of reproach.
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- noun Obsolete form of
pilgarlic .
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Examples
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She was well under ninety, poor late Mrs, and had tastes of the poetics, me having stood the pilgarlick a fresh at sea when the moon also was standing in a corner of sweet Standerson my ski.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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You visit, you dine abroad, you see friends; you pilgarlick; [14] you walk from
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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 Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901
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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 Jonathan Swift 1706
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(Galimatious - nonsense, pilgarlick - a poor wretch, phrontistery - thinking place, tintinabulate - ring or call).
SpikeMagazine.com 2009
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[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 Swift’s
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Galimatious - nonsense, pilgarlick - a poor wretch, phrontistery - thinking place, tintinabulate - ring or call).
SpikeMagazine.com 2009
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Galimatious - nonsense, pilgarlick - a poor wretch, phrontistery - thinking place, tintinabulate - ring or call).
SpikeMagazine.com 2009
Gammerstang commented on the word pilgarlick
(noun) - (1) One who peels garlick for others to eat, who is metaphorically made to endure hardships while others are enjoying themselves at his expense.
--Hensleigh Wedgwood's Dictionary of English Etymology, 1878
(2) Said originally to mean one whose skin or hair had fallen off from some disease, chiefly a venereal one. But now commonly used by persons speaking of themselves, as "There stood poor pilgarlick," there stood I.
--Francis Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1796
(3) A person dressed shabbily or fantastically.
--W. Hugh Patterson's Glossary of Words of Antrim and Down, 1880
January 14, 2018