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‖ ˈpicaro Now arch.
[Sp. picaro roguish, knavish, a rogue, knave, sharper = It. ˈpiccaro rascal, beggar: of doubtful etymology; perh. related to Sp. picar, It. piccare to prick: cf. It. piccante sharp. See Diez s.v. Picco.]
A rogue, knave, vagabond.
1623Middleton Span. Gipsy ii. i. (1653) C ij, Basenes! the arts of Cocoquismo, and Germania us'd by our Spanish Pickeroes (I meane Filching, Foysting, Niming, Jilting. c1626Dick of Devon. i. ii. in Bullen O. Pl. II. 12 That word heard By any lowsy Spanish Picardo [sic] Were worth our two neckes. 1626Shirley Brothers v. iii. (1652) 62, I am become the talk Of every Picaro and Ladron. 1719D'Urfey Pills II. 227 Poets, Pimps, Prentices, and poor Piacros [sic]. 1749Smollett tr. Le Sage's Gil Blas IV. x. xii. 115 If Scipio in his childhood was a real Picaro, he has corrected his conduct so well since that time, that he is now the model of a perfect servant. 1966New Statesman 21 Jan. 96/2 The rude and cynical picaro, the philandering gambling tailor or tailoring gambler, finds himself so deeply fascinated by a wealthy young American college girl that he puts on a black roll-neck jersey, poses as a writer, and hopefully takes her to Italy. 1972M. Bradbury in Cox & Dyson 20th-Cent. Mind III. xii. 343 Jack Donaghue in [Iris Murdoch's] Under the Net may seem a typical fifties picaro; but he is a novelist, facing the problem of the possible collapse into contingency of language and the fascinations of silence. 1977Times Lit. Suppl. 20 May 605/2 Picaresque grants an author licence to switch his tones about as the picaro speeds from adventure to adventure. |