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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A pirate or picaro. 2 A pirate ship. 3 A rogue. vb. To behave as a pirate.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in 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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in 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 .
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.