pickaroon
[pik-uh-roon]
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picaroon
or pick·a·roon
[pik-uh-roon]
- a rogue, vagabond, thief, or brigand.
- a pirate or corsair.
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- to act or operate as a pirate or brigand.
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Origin of picaroon
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Historical Examples
I'll go very fast so that I not say it, for I am only old Pickaroon, and he is fine gentlemans!
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"This seems to be your busy day, Pickaroon," suggested the overseer.
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When they called him "Pickaroon" it seemed to him that they were making a play-fellow of him.
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Men curved their palms at their ears, wondering what old Pickaroon could have to say in City Hall.
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pickaroon
- a variant spelling of picaroon
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picaroon
pickaroon
- archaic an adventurer or rogue
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Word Origin
C17: from Spanish picarón, from pícaro
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Word Origin and History for pickaroon
picaroon
n.
1620s, "rogue, thief, adventurer; pirate, sea-robber; small pirate ship," from Spanish picaron, augmentative of picaro "rogue" (see picaresque); also cf. -oon.
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