

Oct 10, 2013 This week's theme

Insults



This week's words

furfuraceous

pediculous

xanthodontous

pilgarlic

fustilugs

Insults A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg



pilgarlic PRONUNCIATION: (pil-GAHR-lik)

MEANING: noun: A bald-headed person.

ETYMOLOGY: Literally peeled garlic, from pill (to peel) + garlic. Earliest documented use: 1529.

USAGE: "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.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life. -R.K. Narayan, writer (1906-2001)





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