garlick
garlick is the obsolete spelling of garlic.
Meaning of garlic
Noun
garlic (countable and uncountable, plural garlics)
- A plant, Allium sativum, related to the onion, having a pungent bulb much used in cooking.
- Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.2013 March, David S. Senchina, “Athletics and Herbal Supplements”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 16 May 2013, page 134
- A preparation from Allium sativum used as a food ingredient or the flavor or other characteristics of such an ingredient.
Noun
garlick (plural 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, ...2009, C. Klekar, The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England, Springer, →ISBN, page 70
- Garlicks, Isinghams, Irish and Russia Cloth; fine Bag and rough Hollands, fine Cambricks, and Muslins, plain and strip'd ... Ann Porter sold second-hand childbed linen and clothing for the poor, which would have been bought by the ...2010, Nicholas Brownlees, Gabriella Del Lungo, John Denton, The Language of Public and Private Communication in a Historical Perspective, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 165
Proper noun capitalized: Garlick
Garlick (plural Garlicks)
- A surname.
Forms of garlick
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | garlicks |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Garlicks |
Origin of garlick
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).
* As a Jewish surname, Americanized from Gorelik. * As an English surname, from the noun garlic. * As a German surname, Americanized from Gerlach and Garlich.
Words that rhyme with garlick
Questions about garlick
- What does garlick mean?
- Garlick means a (type of) linen cloth historically exported from Germany.
- What is garlick the obsolete spelling of?
- Garlick is the obsolete spelling of garlic.
- What part of speech is garlick?
- Garlick can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of garlick?
- The plural of garlick is garlicks.
Words near garlick in the dictionary
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