[Ads-l] An early _chops_ "face"? Evidence for _boody_ < "body"?

[Mark Mandel]

"Peel-garlick": a bald person.
 I don't remember where I learned that one, but it was in association with
the spelling "pilgarlic(k?)".

Mark, collector of linguistic trivia


On Mon, Mar 26, 2018, 8:58 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
..

> The ice on a
> sudden broke, and in dropt Peel-garlick all but the head, where he lookt...

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