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Garlick

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    Archaic spelling of garlic. alt-of, archaic

    "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!"

  2. 2
    A (type of) linen cloth historically exported from Germany. historical

    "... 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, ..."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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).

Etymology 2

* As a Jewish surname, Americanized from Gorelik. * As an English surname, from the noun garlic. * As a German surname, Americanized from Gerlach and Garlich.

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