picaroon
Example Sentences
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But if one is insane, if one has inherited one's grandfather's characteristics as idler, loafer, lounger, dreamer, lover or picaroon, what then?
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht
On the way from Genoa to Messina Irving's vessel was boarded by a piratical picaroon.
From Washington Irving by Henry Walcott Boynton
"Hurrah!" arose in a general roar from the crew of the Noank, more than one voice adding, vociferously, the desire that was felt to smash the picaroon.
From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by W. O. Stoddard
Salmon began to fall on the deck, heaved up on a picaroon.
From Poor Man's Rock by Frank Tenney Johnson
That there picaroon that we sunk to-day was as large a craft as I ever heard o' their usin'.
From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by W. O. Stoddard
