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
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"Hurrah!" arose in a general roar from the crew of the Noank, more than one voice adding, vociferously, the desire that was felt to smash the picaroon.
From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by W. O. Stoddard
His helper forked up salmon with a picaroon.
From Poor Man's Rock by Frank Tenney Johnson
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
On the way from Genoa to Messina Irving's vessel was boarded by a piratical picaroon.
From Washington Irving by Henry Walcott Boynton
I may make an imbroglio sometimes, but, for getting out of a scrape, I would back myself against any picaroon in the Levant; and that is saying a good deal.'
From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
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