English-Thai Dictionary
picaroon
N ชาย พเนจร โจร
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
PICAROON
n.A plunderer; a pirate. This word is not applied to a highway robber, but to pirates and plunderers of wrecks. In all wars, Corsica and Majorca have been nests of picaroons.
PICCADIL, PICCADILLY, PICK'ARDIL, n. [probably from the root of pike, peak. ]
A high collar or a kind of ruff.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
PICAROON
Pic `a *roon ", n. Etym: [Sp. picaron, aug. of picaro roguish, n., a rogue. ]
Defn: One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper. Sir W. Temple.
New American Oxford Dictionary
picaroon
pic a roon |ˌpikəˈro͞on pɪkəˈrun | ▶noun archaic a rogue or scoundrel. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Spanish picarón, augmentative of pícaro ‘rogue. ’
Oxford Dictionary
picaroon
picaroon |ˌpɪkəˈruːn | ▶noun archaic a rogue or scoundrel. • historical a pirate or privateer. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Spanish picarón, augmentative of picaro ‘rogue ’.
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