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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"Better than I did," says I, speaking on impulse, "for sure you are the strangest picaroon that ever cheated the gallows."
From Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Jeffery Farnol
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
For Fortune changeth as the moon To caravel and picaroon.
From Songs from Books by Rudyard Kipling
His helper forked up salmon with a picaroon.
From Poor Man's Rock by Frank Tenney Johnson
The Athenæum necrologist accorded her half a column of obituary, in which she was described as "this pretty, picaroon woman, whose name can never be omitted from any chronicle of Bavaria."
From The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert by Horace Wyndham
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