you guys! you reject actual words like pilgarlic and then blithely accept nonsense like euphelicia, just 'cuz it sounds nice. [now what'd I do with that harumph macro...]
pilgarlic - An appellation given first to a ‘pilled’ or bald head, ludicrously likened to a peeled head of garlic (see garlic-head, garlic n. 3), and then to a bald-headed man, sometimes with insinuation as to an alleged cause (quots. 1619, 1671); from the 17th c. applied in a ludicrously contemptuous or mock-pitiful way: ‘poor creature’. Now dial. in various shades of meaning. Also attrib.
1619 J. T. (title) The Hunting of the Pox: a pleasant Discourse betweene the Authour and Pild-Garlike, wherein is declared the Nature of the Disease, how it came, and how it may be cured. Ibid. i, I ouertooke Pild-Garlike on the way. Ibid. ii, He had of Spanish Buttons store vpon his forehead mixt; And where that they were falne away, there Stooles in place were fixt. 1671 Skinner Etymol. Ling. Angl., Pill'd or Peel'd Garlick, cui Cutis (hoc est Pellis) vel Pili omnes ex morbo aliquo, præsertim Lue Venerea, defluxerunt.
-the Latin word for the day is saepe, often
Minus saepe erres si scias quid nescias.
