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Picards

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An immoral sect of fanatics in the 15th century; so called from Picard of Flanders, their founder, who called himself the New Adam, and tried to introduce the custom of living nude, like Adam in Paradise.

You are as hot-headed as a Picard. This is a French expression, and is tantamount to our “Peppery as a Welshman.”

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Phyllis and Brunetta
Phyllising the Fair
Phynnodderee [the Hairy-one]
Physician
Physician or Fool
Physician, heal Thyself
Physignathos [one who swells the cheeks]
Piarists
Pic-nic
Picador (Spanish)
Picards
Picaroon
Picatrix
Piccadilly (London)
Piccinists (1774–1780)
Pick
Pick Straws (To)
Pick a Hole in his Coat (To)
Pickaninny
Pickelherringe
Pickers and Stealers