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

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Poor Pilgarlic" usu. meant "the poor fool we're talking about." In this
case, "Jack."

As for "chops," let me suggest "the cavity of the mouth," as in OED (1589).
JL


On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 8:47 PM, Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> "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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