picaroon

American  

[pik-uh-roon] / ˌpɪk əˈrun /

Or pickaroon

noun

1. a rogue, vagabond, thief, or brigand.

2. a pirate or corsair.

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verb (used without object)

1. to act or operate as a pirate or brigand.

picaroon British  

/ ˌpɪkəˈruːn /

noun

1. archaic an adventurer or rogue

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Etymology

Origin of picaroon

1615–25; < Spanish picarón, augmentative of pícaro picaro

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Example Sentences

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picaroon

I stopped 'em back there a ways with my picaroon, when they sung out, an' they walked down here on the side planks.

From The Spinner's Book of Fiction by Various

The commander was a calm-tempered man, accustomed to disappointment, or he might have joined with some of the younger officers in their expressions of disgust at having lost the picaroon.

From The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley by William Henry Giles Kingston

Nares quotes several instances of "picaro" and "picaroon" from our early writers.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen

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

But I never believed in them as devoutly as I believed in the destruction of that infernal picaroon.

From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by James Fenimore Cooper

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