This week's theme
Insults

This week's words
furfuraceous
pediculous
xanthodontous
pilgarlic
fustilugs

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A.Word.A.Day

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.

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