garlicn.
/ˈɡɑːlɪk/, U.S. /ˈɡɑrlɪk/ 1. figurative.1691 D. Defoe New Discov. Old Intreague xxiii. 27 Give them their ancient Priviledges agen..The luscious Garlick of the former Reigns. [Allusion to Numbers xi. 5.]1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. ii. ii. 184 Is it for them to breathe garlick on the alliances of Bourbons and Plantagenets.
a. A plant of the genus Allium (usually A. sativum) having a bulbous root, a very strong smell, and an acrid, pungent taste. clove of garlic (see clove n.1 1). oil of garlic, an essential oil obtained from the bulb and stem of the garlic.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > onion, leek, or garlic > [noun] > garlic
garlicc1000
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > onion, leek, or garlic > garlic
garlicc1000
poor man's treacle1611
countryman's treacle1745–7
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 34 Genim cropleac & garleac..gecnuwa wel tosomne.
a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 558/17 Alleum,..garlec.
c1305 Land Cokayne 105 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 159 Hi bringeþ garlek gret plente.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Num. xi. 5 The leke, and the vniowns, and the garlekes [L. allia].
c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 644/28 Hoc alleum, garle.
c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 662/12 Hoc alleum, garly.
c1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 536 Roost beeff & goos with garlek, vinegre, or pepur.
a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 106 They may garlycke pyll..Or pescoddes they may shyll.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 60v Garlicke..groweth with a blade like the Onyon, but not hollowe, the stalke rounde, and the flowres in the toppe in a rounde tufte.
a1627 T. Middleton More Dissemblers besides Women iv. ii, in 2 New Playes (1657) 52 Cap. Lov'st thou the common food of Eygpt, Onions? Dond. I, and Garlick too.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 126 Putting no Garlick or Onions into the Sauce.
1796 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening xv. 296 Garlick, is used for both culinary and medicinal purposes.
1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 485 Oil of Garlic is extracted from the bulbs and stem of the garlic.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. i. 61 If he have not garlic to his roast goose every time he chooses.
b. With qualifying words indicating different species; esp. wild garlic n. = crow-garlic n.See also bear's garlic n. at bear n.1 Compounds 2b, hog's garlic n. at hog n.1 Compounds 2e.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > onion, leek, or garlic > [noun] > garlic > crow-garlic
crow-garlica1400
wild garlica1552
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > onion, leek, or garlic > garlic > crow-garlic
crow-leekc1000
crow-garlica1400
wild garlica1552
a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) III. 7 Diverse of [these] Islettes berith wyld Garlyk.
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 142 Crow Garlick is called..Snakes Garlick..Harts Garlick, or Stags Garlick.
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 143 The great mountain Garlick groweth about Constantinople.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §499 Where Kine feed upon Wilde Garlicke, their Milke tasteth plainely of the Garlicke.
1741 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman May iii. 42 Crow or wild Garlick.
1818 Withering's Brit. Plants (ed. 6) II. 445 Allium ampeloprasum..Round-headed Garlic.
1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. V. 266 Flowering Great Round-headed Garlic.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > interlude
intermedium1589
jiga1592
intermean1599
garlic1614
entry1631
interlude1660
by-clap1661
divertisement1667
divertissementc1728
interact1750
intermezzo1771
intermede1820
entr'acte1841
metalogue1956
1614 R. Tailor Hogge hath lost Pearle i. B ij b Ha. Youle finde it worth Megge of Westminster, althouh it be but a bare Iigge. Pla. O lord sir, I would it had but halfe the taste of garlicke. Ha. Garlicke stinkes to this.
1630 J. Taylor Wks. ii. 159 And for his action he eclipseth quite, The Iigge of Garlick, or the Punks delight.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
garlic-bed n.
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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Garlicke bedde, allectum.
garlic bread n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > fancy bread > flavoured bread
sage bread1668
orange-flower bread1750
garlic bread1951
1951 E. J. Marvel Cook it Ahead 3 (heading) Garlic Bread.
1960 ‘I. T. Ross’ Murder out of School xiv. 181 She brought a basketful of garlic bread from the oven.
garlic-breath n.
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1606 N. Breton Choice, Chance, & Change sig. C4 With such a garlicke breath, as would haue poisoned a dog.
1669 J. Dryden Wild Gallant iv. i. 45 What a Garlick breath my Lady Spring-well had!
garlic butter n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > butter > [noun] > types of butter
May-butter?a1425
clarified butter1562
pot-butter1616
manteca1622
grass butter1648
green butter1654
drawn butter1661
cacao butter1662
ghee1665
rowen1673
ruskin1679
orange butter1696
whey-buttera1722
rowen butter1725
fairy butter1747
grease1788
Cambridge butter1830
stubble-butter1856
black jack1858
maître d'hôtel butter1861
Normandy butter1868
creamery butter1881
pound butter1888
renovated butter1888
samn1888
process butter1898
pool butter1940
garlic butter1942
yak butter1962
Normandy1973
cannabutter1994
1942 C. Spry Come into Garden, Cook (1943) xv. 223 Take a whole loaf... Cut in thick slices... Spread the garlic margarine or butter.
1950 E. David Bk. Mediterranean Food 40 Garlic butter for snails... Pound the garlic... Put the butter into the mortar and work it so that the garlic impregnates it..add the parsley..a very little salt, pepper and nutmeg.
1970 ‘D. Craig’ Young Men may Die viii. 60 We had to eat the specialities, snails in a slime of garlic butter.
1986 W. J. Burley Wycliffe & Quiet Virgin ix. 152 They ordered bowls of soup and bread rolls with garlic butter.
garlic-eater n.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iv. vi. 102 The breath of Garlicke-eaters . View more context for this quotation
garlic-god n. (With allusion to Juvenal Sat. xv. 9.)
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1679 C. Cotton Confinement 24 Their Garlick-Gods, they might indeed adore; And to their Onyons, invocations poure.
garlic-head n.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > onion, leek, or garlic > [noun] > garlic > bulb or part of
clovec1000
garlic-head?1484
chive1551
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > onion, leek, or garlic > garlic > bulb or clove of
garlic-head?1484
?1484 Will of Margaret Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 386 A standing pece white couered, with a white garleek heed vpon the knoppe.
1521 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 202 Sex cocliaria argentea cum knoppes vocatis garlekhed.
1616–61 B. Holyday tr. Persius Sat. 330 To taste each morn three times a garlick-head.
1837 B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Acharnians ii. v, in Comedies 53 If they saw a cucumber..or garlic-head.
garlic-monger n.
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1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. vii. 373 Godefray þe garlek-mongere.
garlic-mortar n.
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1602 Withals' Dict. 187/2 A garlike morter, mortarium alliarium.
garlic-odour n.
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1849 D. Campbell Pract. Text-bk. Inorg. Chem. 22 It has..a garlic odour and taste.
garlic-pickle n.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > relish > [noun] > pickles or chutney > types of pickles
caper1481
samphire1624
mango1679
English capers1750
piccalilli1758
garlic-pickle1853
tsukemono1885
kimchi1888
maraschino cherry1900
dill pickle1906
dongchimi1962
1853 W. J. Hickie tr. Aristophanes Comedies II. 631 Content with garlic-pickle.
garlic press n.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > tools for preparing vegetables
pea sheller1858
rumbler1865
mandolin1927
garlic press1958
1958 Catal. County Stores Taunton June 12 Garlic Press.
1968 House & Garden May 15/2 Garlic press..useful all-metal kitchen utensil for pressing garlic..11/6.
garlic salt n.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > other flavourings > [noun]
saffronc1200
rorraa1500
fetida1588
balachong1699
gammon essence1706
ratafia1727
silphium1753
peppermint1811
Honduras sarsaparilla1818
oil of wintergreen1827
wintergreen oil1827
peppermint oil1850
apple oil1852
almond extract1865
duxelles1877
celery salt1897
gianduja1902
onion salt1925
garlic saltc1938
banoffi1994
c1938 Fortnum & Mason Catal. 52/2 Salt..Garlic—per bot. 1/6.
1958 Catal. County Stores Taunton June 12 Garlic or Onion Salt.
garlic-sauce n.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > garlic-sauce
ganselc1430
garlic-sauce1552
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Garlicke sauce, alliatum.
1892 T. F. Garrett & W. A. Rawson Encycl. Pract. Cookery I. 668 Garlick Sauce.
garlic sausage n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > sausage > [noun] > types of sausage
franchemyle1381
herbelade?c1390
haggisc1400
black puddinga1450
blood puddingc1450
bloodinga1500
liveringa1500
haggis pudding1545
white pudding1578
swine's pudding1579
hog's pudding1583
Bolognian sausage1596
bloodling1598
andouille1605
andouillet1611
cervelat1613
mortadella1613
polony1654
blacking1674
hacking1674
whiting1674
Oxford sausagec1700
saucisson1772
German sausage1773
saveloy1784
blood sausage1799
white hawse1819
liver sausage1820
black pot1825
chipolata1830
Bologna sausage1833
butifarra1836
mettwurst1836
Cambridge sausage1840
boudin1845
chorizo1846
German1847
liverwurst1852
salami1852
station-Jack1853
leberwurst1855
wurst1855
blutwurst1856
bag of mystery1864
Vienna sausage1865
summer sausage1874
wienerwurst1875
mealy pudding1880
whitepot1880
wiener1880
erbswurst1885
pepperoni1888
mystery bag1889
red-hot1890
weenie1891
hot dog1892
frankfurter1894
sav?1894
Coney Island1895
coney1902
garlic sausage1905
boloney1907
kishke1907
drisheen1910
bratwurst1911
banger1919
cocktail sausage1927
boerewors1930
soy sausage1933
thuringer1933
frank1936
fish sausage1937
knackwurst1939
foot-long1941
starver1941
soya sausage1943
soysage1943
soya link1944
brat1949
Vienna1952
kielbasa1953
Coney dog1954
tube steak1963
Weisswurst1963
Cumberland sausage1966
merguez1966
tripe sausage1966
schinkenwurst1967
boerie1981
'nduja1996
1905 Daily Chron. 5 Jan. 4/5 The remnants of [horse] flesh—which even the garlic-sausage manufacturers cannot use.
1930 E. Waugh Labels 44 In the haversack on his back he carries a map and garlic sausage.
1968 P. Dickinson Weathermonger vi. 69 They..ate garlic sausage, processed cheese, bread and tomatoes.
garlic-seed n.
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1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects i. xv. 94 Bees gather..Garlick-seeds.
garlic-seller n.
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1483 Cath. Angl. 150/2 A Garleke seller, allearius.
garlic-smell n.
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1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 428 It may be distinguished by its garlic smell.
garlic-vinegar n.
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1892 T. F. Garrett & W. A. Rawson Encycl. Pract. Cookery I. 668 Garlic Vinegar.
b.
garlic-eating adj.
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1884 E. Barker Through Auvergne 80 When you live among an onion-eating or garlick-eating people.
garlic-like adj.
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1816 F. Accum Pract. Ess. Chem. Re-agents (1818) 221 The peculiar garlic-like odour.
C2.
garlic-snail n. a mollusc so called from its emitting a garlic-like odour.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > order Pulmonifera > Inoperculata > family Helicidae > genus Helix > helix alliaria
garlic-snail1851
1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 30 A few exhale peculiar odours, like the garlic-snail (helix alliaria).
C3. esp. in popular names of plants.† garlic treaclewort n. Obsolete = garlic-mustard n.
garlic-germander n. the water germander, Teucrium Scordium.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > germander plants
hindheala1300
ambrosea1350
wild sagea1400
germander?a1425
tetterwosea1500
English treacle1548
garlic-germander1548
scordium1548
wood-sage1571
garlic-sage1597
horse-chire1597
tree germander1597
mountain sage1659
marum1666
teucrium1673
mastic plant1718
thorny germander1822
bitter sage1865
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. G.iv Scordium..maye be called in englishe water Germander or Garleke Germander.
garlic-mustard n. (also garlic treacle-mustard) Sisymbrium Alliaria ( Alliaria officinalis).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > hedge-garlic
sauce-alone1530
jack of the hedge1538
jack-by-the-hedge1578
garlic treaclewort1597
poor man's treacle1611
jack-in-the-hedge1675
garlic-mustard1861
Jack-in-the-bush1872
1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. I. 129 Garlic Treacle-mustard, Jack-by-the-Hedge, or Sauce-alone.
garlic-pear n. (also garlic-peartree) the American plant Cratæva gynandra.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > South American and West Indian trees or shrubs > [noun] > others
persea1601
mahoe1666
poison berry1672
white mangrove1683
maiden plum1696
angelin1704
garlic-pear1725
milkwood-tree1725
Jack-in-the-box1735
cherimoya1736
rattle bush1750
galapee1756
genip1756
lace bark1756
sunfruit1787
wild orange1802
hog-nut1814
mountain pride1814
savannah wattle1814
mora1825
rubber tree1826
mayflower1837
bastard manchineel1838
long john1838
seringa1847
sack tree1849
jumbie tree1860
jumbie bean1862
king-tree1863
gauze-tree1864
mountain green1864
snowdrop tree1864
strong bark1864
switch-sorrel1864
candle-tree1866
maypole1866
angelique1873
poisonwood1884
porkwood1884
1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 169 Garlick Pear-Tree..The fruit has..a mealy pulp..smelling like garlick, whence the name.
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 246 The thin-leafed Crateva, or Garlick Pear.
1895 Oracle Encycl. II. 208/1 The garlic pear..blisters the skin.
garlic-sage n. the wood sage or germander, Teucrium Scorodonia.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > germander plants
hindheala1300
ambrosea1350
wild sagea1400
germander?a1425
tetterwosea1500
English treacle1548
garlic-germander1548
scordium1548
wood-sage1571
garlic-sage1597
horse-chire1597
tree germander1597
mountain sage1659
marum1666
teucrium1673
mastic plant1718
thorny germander1822
bitter sage1865
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 535 Of Wood Sage, or Garlicke Sage.
1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. IV. 174 Wood Germander or Wood Sage..often called Garlic Sage, because when bruised, it has a slight odour of garlic.
garlic-shrub n. (see quot.).
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1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 520/1 Garlic shrub, Bignonia alliacea; also Petiveria alliacea.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > hedge-garlic
sauce-alone1530
jack of the hedge1538
jack-by-the-hedge1578
garlic treaclewort1597
poor man's treacle1611
jack-in-the-hedge1675
garlic-mustard1861
Jack-in-the-bush1872
1597 J. Gerard Herball Table Eng. Names Garlicke Treaclewoort, or Garlicke Mustard, and his kinds.
garlic-tree n. (see quot.).
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1882 J. Smith Dict. Pop. Names Plants Garlic Tree, a name in Jamaica for Cratæva tapia..The fruit has a strong smell of Garlic.
garlic-wort n. = garlic-mustard n.
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1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants 89 Garlick-wort..Erysimum Alliaria, L.
Derivatives
ˈgarlic v. to dose with garlic.Apparently an isolated use.
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1830 J. W. Warter tr. Aristophanes Knights in Acharnians, Knights, Wasps 72 Chorus. Take this garlic, and swallow it down without chewing. Sausage-seller. Why? Cho. That, when garlicked, my friend, you may fight the better.
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garlic crusher n. Cookery an implement designed to crush garlic cloves, esp. a small press in which the cloves are placed in a compartment and forced through small holes at the bottom.
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1966 N.Y. Times 20 Oct. d3/1 She produced her latest acquisition, a dime-store garlic crusher.
2002 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 22 Jan. If you love the taste of garlic but hate the smell which lingers on your fingers after preparing it, why not invest in a good garlic crusher to give you the best of both worlds?
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garlic chive n. (chiefly in plural) an Asian plant, Allium tuberosum (family Amaryllidaceae), which has long grass-like leaves with a flavour resembling that of garlic, used in Asian cookery.Also called Chinese chive.
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1948 Golden Gardens (Los Angeles) Apr. 314/2 From India and the Far East comes Allium tuberosum, a worthwhile plant that is very much neglected in our gardens... It goes under the common names of Oriental garlic and garlic chives.
1979 Arnoldia 39 250 A. tuberosum. Garlic Chives... White flowers in summer, flattened leaves.
2018 New Yorker 10 Dec. 17/2 A crunchy stir-fry of minced garlic chives, ground pork, and fermented black beans.
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