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Definition of pilch in English: pilch(also pelch, pelsh) noun pɪltʃ historical 1An outer garment made of animal skin with the fur used as a lining; (in later use also) a leather or coarse woollen outer garment. 2A rug or pad laid over a saddle. 3A triangular wrapper of flannel, wool, etc., worn over a baby's diaper or napkin. Now rare.
verb pɪltʃ Regional, United States Regional, Scottish, Northern no object And with object. To pick, pluck; to pilfer, rob.
OriginOld English. From post-classical Latin pellicia pelisse Middle English; earliest use found in Ancrene Riwle. Probably the reflex of an unattested Old English verb *pilcian, either from *pilian + -c-, factitive suffix, or a borrowing from early Scandinavian, cognate with German regional (Low German) pilken (also polken) to pick out with the fingers or the nails, further etymology uncertain: perhaps an extended form of the Germanic base of Middle Dutch pellen to peel, hull (Dutch pellen), Middle Low German pellen to skin (German regional (Low German) pellen, pillen to peel), ultimately from classical Latin pellis or pilāre to deprive of hair or feathers. In Orkney and Shetland use from the unattested Norn reflex of the early Scandinavian word represented by the Scandinavian forms listed above. Definition of pilch in US English: pilch(also pelch, pelsh) nounpɪltʃ historical 1An outer garment made of animal skin with the fur used as a lining; (in later use also) a leather or coarse woollen outer garment. 2A rug or pad laid over a saddle. 3A triangular wrapper of flannel, wool, etc., worn over a baby's diaper or napkin. Now rare.
verbpɪltʃ Regional, United States Regional, Scottish, Northern no object And with object. To pick, pluck; to pilfer, rob.
OriginOld English. From post-classical Latin pellicia pelisse<br>Middle English; earliest use found in Ancrene Riwle. Probably the reflex of an unattested Old English verb *pilcian, either from *pilian + -c-, factitive suffix, or a borrowing from early Scandinavian, cognate with German regional (Low German) pilken (also polken) to pick out with the fingers or the nails, further etymology uncertain: perhaps an extended form of the Germanic base of Middle Dutch pellen to peel, hull (Dutch pellen), Middle Low German pellen to skin (German regional (Low German) pellen, pillen to peel), ultimately from classical Latin pellis or pilāre to deprive of hair or feathers. In Orkney and Shetland use from the unattested Norn reflex of the early Scandinavian word represented by the Scandinavian forms listed above. |