pickaroon
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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On river drives, he'd be right out there with a pickaroon, keeping the logs moving.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had long been a hardy adventurer, a kind of equivocal borderer, half trader, half smuggler, with a tolerable dash of the pickaroon.
From Project Gutenberg
"I have sent for you, sir—" "Pickaroon!" "—sir," continued Mr. Fogg, "to ask you to sell me your vessel."
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And some child who saw the motion, getting a hasty peep from a widow, squealed, "Hi yi, old Pickaroon!"
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"This seems to be your busy day, Pickaroon," suggested the overseer.
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