picaroon
Americannoun
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a rogue, vagabond, thief, or brigand.
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a pirate or corsair.
verb (used without object)
noun
Etymology
Origin of picaroon
1615–25; < Spanish picarón, augmentative of pícaro picaro
Example Sentences
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In this peculiar style, which may perhaps be regarded as an irregular descendant of the picaroon romance, Murger has no rival; and he is also, though on no extensive scale, a poet of great pathos.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
Now, I knew how many a half dozen was, but I didn't have the slightest idea what a picaroon looked like nor what it was used for.
From The Life of Me; an autobiography by Clarence Edgar Johnson
Salmon began to fall on the deck, heaved up on a picaroon.
From Poor Man's Rock by Frank Tenney Johnson
On the way from Genoa to Messina Irving's vessel was boarded by a piratical picaroon.
From Washington Irving by Henry Walcott Boynton
That there picaroon that we sunk to-day was as large a craft as I ever heard o' their usin'.
From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by W. O. Stoddard
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