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picaroon (pik-uh-ROON) - n., a rogue, knave, or brigand; a pirate or corsair; a pirate ship. v., to act as a pirate.
The lesser known noun form of picaresque, of or pertaining to adventurers or rogues, especially the genre of satiric novels dealing with the adventures of a roguish hero -- which, like this word, originated in Spanish: picarón, augmentative of pícaro, rogue, origin unknown but possibly related to picar, to prick, from the same Vulgar Latin root *pīccare, to sting/strike, that gave us (via French) pique.
---L.
The lesser known noun form of picaresque, of or pertaining to adventurers or rogues, especially the genre of satiric novels dealing with the adventures of a roguish hero -- which, like this word, originated in Spanish: picarón, augmentative of pícaro, rogue, origin unknown but possibly related to picar, to prick, from the same Vulgar Latin root *pīccare, to sting/strike, that gave us (via French) pique.
---L.
