An English word from the 1850's that referred to a wooden puppet that was controlled by strings. For example : he can't think for himself he's such a quockerwodger.
A bald headed man : a man looked upon with humorous contempt or mock pity.
The Latin word for "hair" - "pilus" - has given us a number of words: "depilation" ("the removal of hair by chemical or mechanical means"), "pilose" ("covered with soft hair"), and "pelage" ("the hairy covering of a mammal"). "Pilgarlic" also has ties to "pilus," although the person who first used the word in the 16th century was probably thinking about cloves, not Latin roots. Pilgarlic comes from the supposed resemblance between a bald head and peeled garlic - "pilled garlic," in British dialect. The verb "pill" comes in part from the Old English "pilian" ("to peel"), which is thought to trace back to "pilus."
A bald headed man : a man looked upon with humorous contempt or mock pity.
The Latin word for "hair" - "pilus" - has given us a number of words: "depilation" ("the removal of hair by chemical or mechanical means"), "pilose" ("covered with soft hair"), and "pelage" ("the hairy covering of a mammal"). "Pilgarlic" also has ties to "pilus," although the person who first used the word in the 16th century was probably thinking about cloves, not Latin roots. Pilgarlic comes from the supposed resemblance between a bald head and peeled garlic - "pilled garlic," in British dialect. The verb "pill" comes in part from the Old English "pilian" ("to peel"), which is thought to trace back to "pilus."
A bald headed man : a man looked upon with humorous contempt or mock pity.
The Latin word for "hair" - "pilus" - has given us a number of words: "depilation" ("the removal of hair by chemical or mechanical means"), "pilose" ("covered with soft hair"), and "pelage" ("the hairy covering of a mammal"). "Pilgarlic" also has ties to "pilus," although the person who first used the word in the 16th century was probably thinking about cloves, not Latin roots. Pilgarlic comes from the supposed resemblance between a bald head and peeled garlic - "pilled garlic," in British dialect. The verb "pill" comes in part from the Old English "pilian" ("to peel"), which is thought to trace back to "pilus."
First known use 1529
Used to be a very good horse back in the day
Few horses can claim to have jumped the Aintree Grand National fences as much as stalwart The Pilgarlic who, in the late seventies gave many a horse a run for his money. He started in the Topham Chase in 1976 where he finished second and from there on in was headed to the Grand National.
Usually a horse who enters and places that many successive years would at least be memorable but unfortunately for the Pilgarlic he was also running at the same time as the legendary Red Rum and after that he didn't have a shot at being remembered.
He entered and finished fourth in 1977, fifth in 1978, fourth again in 1979, his best finish at third in 1980 when he went off at 33/1. Remembered for being a dour stayer but with only one gear, he showed tremendous courage and stamina, but no speed. Still, he wouldn't have been the first horse with those characteristics to win the National but it was not to be.
In the 1980 Grand National on March 29th 1980, there was only four finishers. It was won by Ben Nevis, ridden by the American amateur rider Charlie Fenwick. Second was Rough and Tumble ridden by John Francome, third was The Pilgarlic and fourth was Stuart Royal.
A dolt is a dull person , literally so. It’s first found in the form doltish in the 1540s and appears to be related to dull and dold (“stupid, inert”), an obsolete past participial form of the verb to dull that might also be responsible for doldrums
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Turns out, according to the OED and @ShaunyT , "coolth" was formed "chiefly after warmth" and warmth first showed up 1100s.
The Oxford English Dictionary says “coolth” was formed “chiefly after warmth,” which first showed up in the 1100s.
Famous people that have used the word it their work , Rudyard Kipling, J. R. R. Tolkien, Ezra Pound, and Seamus Heaney.
The most recent citation is from Positively Fifth Street:
Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion’s World Series of Poker (2003), James McManus’s book about the poker championship in Las Vegas:
“My albeit progressive-bifocal shades suggest not feeble nearsightedness but its opposite—penetrating 20/20 vision to go with impenetrable coolth.”
Small world.
I found all this and more here.
https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2013/07/coolth.html
Im determined to say it in a sentence sometime soon.
The tiresome and irritating repetition of words and phrases
An English word from the 1850's that referred to a wooden puppet that was controlled by strings.
For example : he can't think for himself he's such a quockerwodger.
Impenetrable coolth..... love it!!
The use of swearing to relieve stress, pain or utter frustration...which I suppose most of us poker players know something about
A bald headed man : a man looked upon with humorous contempt or mock pity.
The Latin word for "hair" - "pilus" - has given us a number of words: "depilation" ("the removal of hair by chemical or mechanical means"), "pilose" ("covered with soft hair"), and "pelage" ("the hairy covering of a mammal"). "Pilgarlic" also has ties to "pilus," although the person who first used the word in the 16th century was probably thinking about cloves, not Latin roots. Pilgarlic comes from the supposed resemblance between a bald head and peeled garlic - "pilled garlic," in British dialect. The verb "pill" comes in part from the Old English "pilian" ("to peel"), which is thought to trace back to "pilus."
First known use 1529
ie; a'mount: Ancient word for joining of couples larking about in the woods.
ok I'll get me coat.
Usually a horse who enters and places that many successive years would at least be memorable but unfortunately for the Pilgarlic he was also running at the same time as the legendary Red Rum and after that he didn't have a shot at being remembered.
He entered and finished fourth in 1977, fifth in 1978, fourth again in 1979, his best finish at third in 1980 when he went off at 33/1. Remembered for being a dour stayer but with only one gear, he showed tremendous courage and stamina, but no speed. Still, he wouldn't have been the first horse with those characteristics to win the National but it was not to be.
In the 1980 Grand National on March 29th 1980, there was only four finishers. It was won by Ben Nevis, ridden by the American amateur rider Charlie Fenwick. Second was Rough and Tumble ridden by John Francome, third was The Pilgarlic and fourth was Stuart Royal.
http://www.grand-national.me.uk/3178/thepilgarlic/
A 15th century word meaning hope or expectation.
An entirely unnecessary or futile undertaking
A dolt is a dull person , literally so.
It’s first found in the form doltish in the 1540s and appears to be related to dull and dold (“stupid, inert”), an obsolete past participial form of the verb to dull that might also be responsible for doldrums
Pertaining to both pleasure and pain
An old Irish word for a nosy, prying person who likes to interfere in other people’s business