This week's theme: Hair today, gone tomorrow. pilgarlic (pil-GAHR-lik) noun
A bald-headed person. [Literally peeled garlic, from pill (to peel) + garlic.] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "Moving from pogonotrophy to pilgarlics, many politicians perceive that the voters won't go for a bald-headed candidate, according to John T. Capps III of (where else?) Morehead City, N.C., president and founder of Bald-Headed Men of America. Capps believes there is a cover-up in Washington where he suspects that many members of Congress are wearing rugs. "In these circles, a word like pilgarlic can come in handy. Besides being a real word in the dictionary that means a bald-headed man, pilgarlic is to bald as statesman is to political hack." Irving Long; Historic Roots The Hairiest of Political Cover-ups; Newsday (New York); Mar 12, 1995. The sponsors of this newsletter are: AdSpeed - Advanced ad serving solution. Easy to use, reliable, fast service. http://www.adspeed.com/?src=wordsmith Always find the right word with the Visual Thesaurus. Wordsmith readers save 10%. Try it free! http://www.visualthesaurus.com/?ad=aw&code=mx0 ............................................................................ The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach. -Aleister Crowley, author (1875-1947) Our privacy policy: AWAD mailing list addresses are never sold, rented, leased, traded, swapped, exchanged, or bartered. We hate junk mail. Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/pilgarlic.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/pilgarlic.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/pilgarlic.html This message was sent to "[email protected]".
