picaroon

or pick·a·roon

[ pik-uh-roon ]

noun

1. a rogue, vagabond, thief, or brigand.
2. a pirate or corsair.

verb (used without object)

1. to act or operate as a pirate or brigand.

picaroon

/ ˌpɪkəˈruːn /

noun

1. archaic.
   an adventurer or rogue

Word History and Origins

Origin of picaroon¹

1615–25; < Spanish picarón, augmentative of pícaro picaro

Word History and Origins

Origin of picaroon¹

C17: from Spanish picarón, from pícaro

Example Sentences

But I never believed in them as devoutly as I believed in the destruction of that infernal picaroon.

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I observed wretched devils playing here, whose whole standing kit would not have brought a picaroon at vendue.

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On the way from Genoa to Messina Irving's vessel was boarded by a piratical picaroon.

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MacRae threw open his hatches and counted the salmon as they came flipping off the point of a picaroon.

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Picaroon, a pirate or buccaneer originally; now an ordinary thief.

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