Crossword clues for picaroon
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Picaroon \Pic`a*roon"\, n. [Sp. picaron, aug. of picaro roguish,
n., a rogue.]
One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a
pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper.
--Sir W. Temple.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, "rogue, thief, adventurer; pirate, sea-robber; small pirate ship," from Spanish picaron, augmentative of picaro "rogue" (see picaresque); also see -oon.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A pirate or picaro. 2 A pirate ship. 3 A rogue. vb. To behave as a pirate.
Wikipedia
Picaroon (1922–1926) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. He was the leading British two-year-old colt of his generation, winning all three of his races in 1924 including the Imperial Produce Stakes and the Middle Park Stakes recording victories over Manna and Solario in the process. In the following spring he won the Craven Stakes and was favourite for the 2000 Guineas and the Epsom Derby but then began to suffer from leg problems which ruled him out of both races. He returned in autumn to finish fourth in the St Leger and then won his last four races including the Champion Stakes. He remained in training in 1926 but his leg problems intensified and he was euthanised at the age of four.
Usage examples of "picaroon".
In every snickert and ginnel, bone-grubbers, rufflers, shivering-jemmies, anglers, clapperdogeons, peterers, sneeze-lurkers and Whip Jacks with their morts, out of the picaroon, fox and flimp and ogle.
It was highly improbable that Napper could have already arrived, unless the fellow had been casing the hotel with a pineapple on his hip, for The Shadow had made a short, quick trip from the Cafe Picaroon.
Albanian brigands, the banditti of Piedmont, the Lanzknechte and Freiritter of the Rhine, Algerine picaroons, and other such folk.
It was like a mustering shouting to adventurous stars, buglings to buccaneering winds, cadenced beckonings to restless ranks of viking waves, signaling to all the corsairs and picaroons of the elemental.
As we got to know each other better and a level of vague trust developed, Fonny Boy got more specific and began to talk about pirates, or picaroons, as he called them.