Definitions for buccaneer

buccaneer buc·ca·neer

Spelling: [buhk-uh-neer]
IPA: /ˌbʌk əˈnɪər/

Buccaneer is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 248 anagrams from letters in buccaneer (abcceenru).

Definitions for buccaneer

noun

  1. any of the piratical adventurers who raided Spanish colonies and ships along the American coast in the second half of the 17th century.
  2. any pirate.

Origin of buccaneer

1655-65; French boucanier, literally, barbecuer, equivalent to boucan barbecue (Tupi, variant of mukém) + -ier -eer

Examples for buccaneer

It was a fame such as no buccaneer—not even Morgan—has ever boasted, before or since.

As a politician, Sarkozy is as brutal as any buccaneer, and he lets the world see it.

Drake was a very great sailor, but he was undoubtedly a buccaneer.

They had always felt sorry for the unfortunate wife of the buccaneer.

With these he thought he could keep the buccaneer contingent in order and submissive.

In them were a score of snares for the buccaneer with money in his pocket and dope in his blood.

My buccaneer transforms himself, under my very eyes, into an alderman!

A buccaneer wants status, too, but only if that status is justly earned and sustained through the quality of his work.

A pretty thing if we were snapped up by a buccaneer and sold in the Plantations!'

A buccaneer lives for the excitement of deciphering the mysteries of human experience.

Word Value for buccaneer
Scrable

0

Words with friends

20

Similar words for buccaneer
Word of the day