picaroon

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"Inspiration to do which," he proceeded gravely, "came to me from the seafaring picaroon (Stryker did you name him?)

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  1. noun A pirate.
  2. noun A pirate ship.
  3. noun See picaro.

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  • "Inspiration to do which," he proceeded gravely, "came to me from the seafaring picaroon (Stryker did you name him?) —  The Black Bag
  • But time had taught him [Note: last word, 'far-righted' must be a typo] many things--the picaroon was becoming far-sighted; the grasshopper had learned of the ant. —  Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California
  • Off the island of Planoca it was overpowered and captured by a little picaroon, with lateen sails and a couple of guns, and a most villainous crew, in poverty-stricken garments, rusty cutlasses in their hands and stilettos and pistols stuck in their waistbands. —  Washington Irving
  • I stopped 'em back there a ways with my picaroon, when they sung out, an' they walked down here on the side planks. —  The Spinner's Book of Fiction
  • As to the picaroon or privateer, she was able to do little in the matter, not daring to come so near the men-of-war as to take a broadside, which her thin sides would not have been able to bear, but would have sent her to the bottom at once; so that the English men-of- war had no assistance from her, nor could she prevent the taking the two merchant-ships. —  From London to Land's End and Two Letters from the "Journey through England by a Gentleman"
 

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  1. Spanish picarón, augmentative of pícaro, picaro; see picaro.

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  1. Formerly also pickaroune, pickeroon; from Spanish picaron, a rogue, from pícaro, a rogue: see pickeer, pickery.
  2. Origin uncertain.
 

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