Definitions for picaroon

picaroon pic·a·roon

Spelling: [pik-uh-roon]
IPA: /ˌpɪk əˈrun/

Picaroon is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 261 anagrams from letters in picaroon (acinoopr).

Definitions for picaroon

noun

  1. a rogue, vagabond, thief, or brigand.
  2. a pirate or corsair.

verb (used without object)

  1. to act or operate as a pirate or brigand.

Origin of picaroon

1615-25; Spanish picarón, augmentative of pícaro picaro

Examples for picaroon

If we go on in this manner, said he, we shall be the prey of every picaroon on the ocean.

MacRae threw open his hatches and counted the salmon as they came flipping off the point of a picaroon.

picaroon, a pirate or buccaneer originally; now an ordinary thief.

I stopped 'em back there a ways with my picaroon, when they sung out, an' they walked down here on the side planks.

I observed wretched devils playing here, whose whole standing kit would not have brought a picaroon at vendue.

He does little more than adopt that of the Spanish picaroon romance of the 16th and 17th century.

Word Value for picaroon
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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