garlick
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garlick¹
Sounds like garlic · Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)lɪk
noun garlicks
- Obsolete spelling of garlic He may make a shift to sow lettuce, raise melons, and water a garden-plat; but otherwise, a very filthy fellow: how odiously he smells of his country garlick!
garlick²
Sounds like garlic · Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)lɪk
Where it comes from
A corruption of a placename, probably German Görlitz in Silesia (whence early spellings like garlits), or possibly Dutch Gulik (the Duchy of Jülich, suggested by early spellings like gulix).
noun garlicks
- A (type of) linen cloth historically exported from Germany. ... Segathies, Callimancoes, Stuffs, Hats, Silk, Worsted, and Thread Stockings, Hollands, Cambricks, Lawns, Muslin, Dowlasses, Garlicks, Damask Table Linen, Diaper Ditto, several Sorts of Manchester Goods, English and Italian Mantuas, ...
Garlick³
Where it comes from
* As a Jewish surname, Americanized from Gorelik.
* As an English surname, from the noun garlic.
* As a German surname, Americanized from Gerlach and Garlich.
proper noun Garlicks
- A surname.
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