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Picaroon   Listen
noun
Picaroon  n.  One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Picaroon" Quotes from Famous Books



... and stared unsympathetically as the recital wandered unhurried to its end. For him, the picaroon who leaned upon his desk was scarcely more than a tramp; Selby had respectability for a religion; and his beaky, irritable face, behind the glasses that straddled across his nose, answered Tim Waters's mild conciliatory gaze with stiff hostility. ...
— Those Who Smiled - And Eleven Other Stories • Perceval Gibbon



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