garlicked

1. 1
   adjective

   Seasoned or flavored with garlic.

   The chef served garlicked shrimp over a bed of buttered rice.

   These garlicked olives have a sharp, pungent bite that lingers.

   Similargarlicky

   Note

   Built from garlic plus -ed, in the pattern of buttered or salted, it reports something done to the food rather than just how it tastes. New York Magazine's 1977 review praises clams "buttery and lightly garlicked". An adverb of degree like lightly fits naturally even though the adjective has no comparative form. Garlicky leans toward the flavor itself, while garlicked keeps the sense of the cook's action, close to the verb's past forms.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of garlic.

   She garlicked the olive oil before tossing it with the pasta.

   The cook had garlicked the marinade hours before the guests arrived.

   Note

   A noun turned into an action: garlic, the plant and the ingredient, also serves as a verb meaning "to flavor with garlic." The spelling is the thing to watch. A k slips in before -ed, as in panicked or picnicked, so the c keeps its hard sound. One form covers both the simple past (she garlicked the oil) and the past participle (had garlicked), and it doubles as the adjective for seasoned food.

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