Pilgarlio or Pill'd Garlic (A). One whose hair has fallen off from dissipation. Stow says of one getting bald:
“He will soon be a peeled garlic like myself.” Generally a poor wretch avoided and forsaken by his fellows. The
editor of Notes and Queries says that garlic was a prime specific for leprosy, so that garlic and leprosy became
inseparably associated. As lepers had to pill their own garlie, they were nicknamed Pil-garlics, and anyone
shunned like a leper was so called likewise. (To pill = to peel; see Gen. xxx. 37.)
It must be borne in mind that at one time garlic was much more commonly used in England than it is now.