picaroonn.¹adj.

Brit.

/ˌpɪkəˈruːn/, U.S.

/ˌpɪkəˈrun/

Forms: 1600s picaroone, 1600s picaroune, 1600s piccaroune, 1600s piceron, 1600s piceroone, 1600s picharoon, 1600s picheron, 1600s pickeron, 1600s piqueroon, 1600s–1700s piceroon, 1600s– picaroon, 1600s– piccaroon, 1600s– pickaroon, 1600s– picquaroon, 1600s– piquaroon, 1700s pickeroon.

Origin: Probably a borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish picarón.

Etymology: Probably a transferred use of Spanish picarón rogue, scoundrel (1592 or earlier) < pícaro picaro n. + -on -oon suffix. Senses A. 1a, A. 2a, and A. 2b are not paralleled in Spanish.

A. n.¹

a. A pirate or privateer. Also figurative. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > piracy > [noun] > pirate

sea-thiefc1050

skimmera1387

scummera1398

galliotc1425

reaver1434

piratea1475

freebooter1570

sea-rover1579

filibuster1591

water rat1600

water thief1600

picaroon1624

sea-rata1640

Algerine1657

marooner1661

rat1675

Likedeelers1764

Viking1807

sea-wolf1837

piratess1862

society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > pirate

rovera1393

pirate?a1425

reaver1434

freebooter1570

filibuster1591

water thief1600

picaroon1624

marooner1661

Likedeelers1764

buccaneer1846

1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia v. 184 Meeting a French Piccaroune..hee..tooke from them what hee liked.

c1681 E. Hickeringill Trimmer in Wks. (1716) I. 355 A Letter of Mart against the Common-Piqueroon of all good Mens Reputations.

1700 S. L. tr. C. Fryke Two Voy. E. Indies 191 The Streight of Sunda was very much infested with Pickaroons.

1790 J. P. Kemble Love in Many Masks iii. v. 40 How is this! a picaroon going to board my frigate!—Draw, Sir—here's one chase gun for you.

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller II. 242 Somewhat of a trader, something more of a smuggler, with a considerable dash of the pickaroon.

1881 W. Wallace in Academy 15 Oct. 289 A crew of social picaroons.

1911 Indiana (Pa.) Progress 11 Oct. 5/2 Tripoli is a country that has never figured largely in the annals of modern times save as a haunt of pirates and picaroons.

1976 W. W. Warner Beautiful Swimmers iv. 66 The bargemen came to be known as picaroons, a venerable term of Caribbean origin synonymous with privateer.

1996 Observer 3 Mar. (Life Suppl.) 47/3 In certain latitudes, the crew had stood day and night anti-pirate watches, fire hoses primed and ready to repel the picaroons.

b. A thief or outlaw; a rogue, a scoundrel. Cf. picaro n. Now chiefly archaic and historical.Sometimes formerly used playfully, as a term of endearment.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > rogue > [noun]

harlot?c1225

truantc1290

shreward1297

boyc1300

lidderon13..

cokinc1330

pautenerc1330

bribera1387

bricouna1400

losarda1400

rascal?a1400

custronc1400

knapea1450

sloven?a1475

limmerc1485

knavatec1506

smaik?1507

smy?1507

koken?a1513

swinger1513

Cock Lorel?1518

pedlar's French1530

varletc1540

losthope?c1550

makeshift1554

wild rogue1567

miligant1568

rogue1568

crack-halter1573

rascallion1582

schelm1584

scoundrel1589

scaba1592

bezonian1592

slave1592

rampallion1593

Scanderbeg1601

roly-poly1602

canter1608

cantler1611

gue1612

fraudsman1613

Cathayana1616

crack-hempa1616

foiterer1616

tilt1620

picaro1622

picaroon1629

sheepmanc1640

rapscallion1648

scaramouch1677

fripon1691

trickster1711

shake-bag1794

sinner1809

cad1838

badmash1843

scattermouch1892

jazzbo1914

society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > rogue, knave, or rascal

harlot?c1225

knavec1275

truantc1290

shreward1297

boinarda1300

boyc1300

lidderon13..

cokinc1330

pautenerc1330

bribera1387

bricouna1400

losarda1400

rascal?a1400

knapea1450

lotterela1450

limmerc1485

Tutivillus1498

knavatec1506

smy?1507

koken?a1513

swinger1513

Cock Lorel?1518

pedlar's French1530

cust1535

rabiator1535

varletc1540

Jack1548

kern1556

wild rogue1567

miligant1568

rogue1568

tutiviller1568

rascallion1582

schelm1584

scoundrel1589

rampallion1593

Scanderbeg1601

scroyle1602

canter1608

cantler1611

skelm1611

gue1612

Cathayana1616

foiterer1616

tilt1620

picaro1622

picaroon1629

sheepmanc1640

rapscallion1648

marrow1656

Algerine1671

scaramouch1677

fripon1691

shake-bag1794

badling1825

tiger1827

two-for-his-heels1837

ral1846

skeezicks1850

nut1882

gun1890

scattermouch1892

tug1896

natkhat1901

jazzbo1914

scutter1940

bar steward1945

hoor1965

1629 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime viii. 85 I answered, that he looked like a Picheron.

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iii. xxix. 102 Your Diamond hatband which the Picaroon snatched from you in the coach.

1684 T. Otway Atheist ii. 11 Are you there indeed, my little Picaroon?

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xvi. 73 Thou who art worse than a pickeroon in love.

1787 J. Whitaker Mary Queen of Scots Vindicated III. 207 This gang of political picaroons was actually afraid of one another.

1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. viii. 209 I see in thy countenance something of the pedlar—something of the picaroon.

1836 G. Almar Rover's Bride ii. i. 31 Deid. Money or food! Law. Off, Picaroon!

1926 S. O'Casey Plough & Stars iv, in Sel. Plays (1954) 253 Th' sliddherin' ways of a pair o' picaroons, whisperin', concurrin', concoctin', an' conspirin' together to [etc.].

1938 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Northwestern 10 Dec. 7/1 The steam-roller of conformity has been ironing us all out—respectable citizens as well as picaroons.

1998 L. Bellamy Commerce, Morality & 18th-Cent. Novel v. 120 Unlike the picaroons of Fielding and Smollett, the inhuman characters are devoid of volition.

a. A small ship of a kind used by pirates. In later use also occasionally: a small fishing boat. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > privateer or pirate ship > [noun]

rover1534

picaroon1625

corsair1632

1625 in S. R. Gardiner Documents Impeachm. Duke of Buckingham (1889) 11 Theis Picaroones..will ever lye hankering upon our coaste.

1658 R. Haddock in Camden Soc. Misc. (1881) 5 Heere escaped out a small pickeron of 4 or 6 guns.

1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 385 A small Picaroon of a Sloop kept them Company in spight of all they could do.

1775 T. Jefferson Let. 10 Dec. in Papers (1950) I. 270 Montgomery had proceeded in quest of Carleton and his small fleet of 11. pickeroons.

1847 H. W. Herbert Tales Spanish Seas i. 8 After a little while, the skiff came to under the lee of the three-masted picaroon, and nothing more was seen by the excited Spaniards.

1885 Daily Tel. 21 May 5/3 Strong exception is taken by the advocates of privateering to such words as corsair, picaroon, and the like being applied to a vessel armed with the authority of a letter of marque.

1910 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 18 June One [ship] was a merchantman, the other a Spanish picaroon.

2004 Times (Nexis) 20 Feb. (Features section) 22 They are caught only off Cornwall..by a guy near Padstow—in a tiny boat called a picaroon.

†b. A slave ship. Cf. barracoon n. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > [noun] > involved in slave trade

Guinea-man1695

slave-ship1796

slaver1830

Guinea ship1855

slave-trader1874

blackbirder1880

picaroon1896

1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 23 Then said the souls of the slaves that men threw overboard: ‘Kennelled in the picaroon a weary band were we.’

B. adj. (attributive).

That is a picaroon (esp. in senses A. 1a and A. 1b); piratical, buccaneering; roguish.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > piracy > [adjective]

piratical1550

picarooning1625

pirately1625

piratica1640

picaroon1650

sea-roving1841

1650 Perfect Diurnall No. 29. 322 One Captain Green who hath a Letter of Mart is come hither with..a little Pickaroon shallop.

1747 H. Laurens Let. 24 June in Papers (1968) I. 11 Our Coast has..been grosly insulted by two or three Piccaroon Privateers.

1858 Athenæum 1 May 556 What was the end of this picaroon woman?

1976 Minneapolis Tribune 10– d/3 Dour Methodist watermen whose picaroon ancestors once troubled the peace of the Chesapeake Bay.

1994 H. Bloom Western Canon ii. v. 141 Critics generally agree that the contrast between Ginés and the Don, picaroon trickster and chivalric visionary, is partly an opposition of two literary genres, the picaresque and the novel.

Derivatives

ˌpicaˈroon-like adj. rare

ΚΠ

1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke xxii. 224 That lean, rakish, long-sparred, picaroon-like craft.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

picaroonn.²

Brit.

/ˌpɪkəˈruːn/, U.S.

/ˌpɪkəˈrun/

Forms: 1800s– picaroon, 1900s– pickaroon.

Origin: Probably a borrowing from French. Etymon: French piqueron.

Etymology: Probably < French piqueron denoting various pointed instruments (e.g. early 16th cent. in Middle French in sense ‘sting of a bee’, 1577 in sense ‘thorn’, 1603 in sense ‘small prick’, 1611 (in Cotgrave) in senses ‘small pike’ and ‘goad’; now regional), although the English sense is apparently not paralleled in French < pique pike n.⁴ + -eron, diminutive suffix.

North American.

A long pole fitted with a spike or hook, used in logging and fishing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > spear > [noun]

pricka1350

garfanglec1440

wawsper1472

spear1551

waster1580

fizgig1589

visgee1593

fish-spear1611

glaive1640

fish-giga1642

gaff1656

gig1705

lance1728

sticker1772

graina1818

picaroon1837

pickpole1837

fishing-spear1840

lily-iron1852

gambeering iron1883

mackerel gaff1883

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumbering equipment > lumberer's hook

pike-pole1765

picaroon1837

pickpole1837

fid-hook1851

driving-pike1877

swamp-hook1877

peavey1878

Samson1905

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > other fishing equipment > [noun] > prongs or hooks for landing fish

grab-hook1608

gaff1656

weir-hook1688

pew1765

click-hookc1810

picaroon1837

gaff-hook1844

pew-gaffa1884

fish-gaff1887

snigger1901

1837 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 354 The rafters..[make] use of a picaroon, or pole with a spike in the end of it, which is..driven into the boards, taking out perhaps a piece at each time.

1850 S. Judd Richard Edney iii. 42 Richard, armed with a picaroon, descended the slip..to the basin, where the logs lay in the water ready to be drawn in.

1924 Appleton (Wisconsin) Post-Crescent 8 May 14/2 The float of the woodyard..was decorated with spruce logs and lumber jacks with their picaroons.

1972 F. Ford Atush Inlet viii. 78 The crew worked with picaroons spiking the fish into the scow.

1998 Portland (Maine) Press Herald (Nexis) 12 Apr. 1 b The company specialized in logging tools like peaveys, pulp hooks and pickaroons that helped fuel that trade.

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picaroonv.

Brit.

/ˌpɪkəˈruːn/, U.S.

/ˌpɪkəˈrun/

Forms: see picaroon n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: picaroon n.¹

Etymology: < picaroon n.¹ Compare earlier picarooning adj.

Now rare.

1. intransitive. To act as a picaroon or pirate; to loiter. Also: †to skirmish (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > piracy > practise piracy [verb (transitive)]

rove1548

pirate?1575

piratize1638

picaroon1675

1675 J. Crowne Countrey Wit iii. 31 These Night-Corsairs and Algerines call'd the Watch, that Pickaroon up and down in the Streets.

1724 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) (at cited word) To pickeroon,..to skirmish as Light-Horse-men do before the Main Battle begins.

1798 Capt. Winterfield Voyages, Distresses, & Adventures Capt. Winterfield 27 Nine weeks we were at sea,..cruising and pickarooning up and down.

1860 All Year Round 1 Sept. 492 The gates were strictly guarded, the spies pickarooning at every corner.

2. transitive. To prey upon (in quot. 1681 figurative); to exploit. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > exploit or take advantage of > specifically a person

to prey upon1610

impose1667

picaroon1681

live1712

to twirl (a person) round one's finger1748

to get over ——1784

exploit1838

to play (it) low down (on)1864

to avail upona1871

pole1906

to put on1958

1681 E. Hickeringill Char. Sham Plotter in Wks. (1716) I. 212 He is the Land-Pirate, that Pickaroons Men's Lives and Estates, by putting out false Colours.

2004 members.cox.net 1 Nov. (O.E.D. Archive) The Boss invented and perfected it using Federal funds. The Feds own it and want it. The Boss has picarooned the Feds.

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单词	picaroon
释义	picaroonn.¹adj. Brit. /ˌpɪkəˈruːn/, U.S. /ˌpɪkəˈrun/ Forms: 1600s picaroone, 1600s picaroune, 1600s piccaroune, 1600s piceron, 1600s piceroone, 1600s picharoon, 1600s picheron, 1600s pickeron, 1600s piqueroon, 1600s–1700s piceroon, 1600s– picaroon, 1600s– piccaroon, 1600s– pickaroon, 1600s– picquaroon, 1600s– piquaroon, 1700s pickeroon. Origin: Probably a borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish picarón. Etymology: Probably a transferred use of Spanish picarón rogue, scoundrel (1592 or earlier) < pícaro picaro n. + -on -oon suffix. Senses A. 1a, A. 2a, and A. 2b are not paralleled in Spanish. A. n.¹ 1. a. A pirate or privateer. Also figurative. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > piracy > [noun] > pirate sea-thiefc1050 skimmera1387 scummera1398 galliotc1425 reaver1434 piratea1475 freebooter1570 sea-rover1579 filibuster1591 water rat1600 water thief1600 picaroon1624 sea-rata1640 Algerine1657 marooner1661 rat1675 Likedeelers1764 Viking1807 sea-wolf1837 piratess1862 society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > pirate rovera1393 pirate?a1425 reaver1434 freebooter1570 filibuster1591 water thief1600 picaroon1624 marooner1661 Likedeelers1764 buccaneer1846 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia v. 184 Meeting a French Piccaroune..hee..tooke from them what hee liked. c1681 E. Hickeringill Trimmer in Wks. (1716) I. 355 A Letter of Mart against the Common-Piqueroon of all good Mens Reputations. 1700 S. L. tr. C. Fryke Two Voy. E. Indies 191 The Streight of Sunda was very much infested with Pickaroons. 1790 J. P. Kemble Love in Many Masks iii. v. 40 How is this! a picaroon going to board my frigate!—Draw, Sir—here's one chase gun for you. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller II. 242 Somewhat of a trader, something more of a smuggler, with a considerable dash of the pickaroon. 1881 W. Wallace in Academy 15 Oct. 289 A crew of social picaroons. 1911 Indiana (Pa.) Progress 11 Oct. 5/2 Tripoli is a country that has never figured largely in the annals of modern times save as a haunt of pirates and picaroons. 1976 W. W. Warner Beautiful Swimmers iv. 66 The bargemen came to be known as picaroons, a venerable term of Caribbean origin synonymous with privateer. 1996 Observer 3 Mar. (Life Suppl.) 47/3 In certain latitudes, the crew had stood day and night anti-pirate watches, fire hoses primed and ready to repel the picaroons. b. A thief or outlaw; a rogue, a scoundrel. Cf. picaro n. Now chiefly archaic and historical.Sometimes formerly used playfully, as a term of endearment. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > rogue > [noun] harlot?c1225 truantc1290 shreward1297 boyc1300 lidderon13.. cokinc1330 pautenerc1330 bribera1387 bricouna1400 losarda1400 rascal?a1400 custronc1400 knapea1450 sloven?a1475 limmerc1485 knavatec1506 smaik?1507 smy?1507 koken?a1513 swinger1513 Cock Lorel?1518 pedlar's French1530 varletc1540 losthope?c1550 makeshift1554 wild rogue1567 miligant1568 rogue1568 crack-halter1573 rascallion1582 schelm1584 scoundrel1589 scaba1592 bezonian1592 slave1592 rampallion1593 Scanderbeg1601 roly-poly1602 canter1608 cantler1611 gue1612 fraudsman1613 Cathayana1616 crack-hempa1616 foiterer1616 tilt1620 picaro1622 picaroon1629 sheepmanc1640 rapscallion1648 scaramouch1677 fripon1691 trickster1711 shake-bag1794 sinner1809 cad1838 badmash1843 scattermouch1892 jazzbo1914 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > rogue, knave, or rascal harlot?c1225 knavec1275 truantc1290 shreward1297 boinarda1300 boyc1300 lidderon13.. cokinc1330 pautenerc1330 bribera1387 bricouna1400 losarda1400 rascal?a1400 knapea1450 lotterela1450 limmerc1485 Tutivillus1498 knavatec1506 smy?1507 koken?a1513 swinger1513 Cock Lorel?1518 pedlar's French1530 cust1535 rabiator1535 varletc1540 Jack1548 kern1556 wild rogue1567 miligant1568 rogue1568 tutiviller1568 rascallion1582 schelm1584 scoundrel1589 rampallion1593 Scanderbeg1601 scroyle1602 canter1608 cantler1611 skelm1611 gue1612 Cathayana1616 foiterer1616 tilt1620 picaro1622 picaroon1629 sheepmanc1640 rapscallion1648 marrow1656 Algerine1671 scaramouch1677 fripon1691 shake-bag1794 badling1825 tiger1827 two-for-his-heels1837 ral1846 skeezicks1850 nut1882 gun1890 scattermouch1892 tug1896 natkhat1901 jazzbo1914 scutter1940 bar steward1945 hoor1965 1629 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime viii. 85 I answered, that he looked like a Picheron. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iii. xxix. 102 Your Diamond hatband which the Picaroon snatched from you in the coach. 1684 T. Otway Atheist ii. 11 Are you there indeed, my little Picaroon? 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xvi. 73 Thou who art worse than a pickeroon in love. 1787 J. Whitaker Mary Queen of Scots Vindicated III. 207 This gang of political picaroons was actually afraid of one another. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. viii. 209 I see in thy countenance something of the pedlar—something of the picaroon. 1836 G. Almar Rover's Bride ii. i. 31 Deid. Money or food! Law. Off, Picaroon! 1926 S. O'Casey Plough & Stars iv, in Sel. Plays (1954) 253 Th' sliddherin' ways of a pair o' picaroons, whisperin', concurrin', concoctin', an' conspirin' together to [etc.]. 1938 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Northwestern 10 Dec. 7/1 The steam-roller of conformity has been ironing us all out—respectable citizens as well as picaroons. 1998 L. Bellamy Commerce, Morality & 18th-Cent. Novel v. 120 Unlike the picaroons of Fielding and Smollett, the inhuman characters are devoid of volition. 2. a. A small ship of a kind used by pirates. In later use also occasionally: a small fishing boat. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > privateer or pirate ship > [noun] rover1534 picaroon1625 corsair1632 1625 in S. R. Gardiner Documents Impeachm. Duke of Buckingham (1889) 11 Theis Picaroones..will ever lye hankering upon our coaste. 1658 R. Haddock in Camden Soc. Misc. (1881) 5 Heere escaped out a small pickeron of 4 or 6 guns. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 385 A small Picaroon of a Sloop kept them Company in spight of all they could do. 1775 T. Jefferson Let. 10 Dec. in Papers (1950) I. 270 Montgomery had proceeded in quest of Carleton and his small fleet of 11. pickeroons. 1847 H. W. Herbert Tales Spanish Seas i. 8 After a little while, the skiff came to under the lee of the three-masted picaroon, and nothing more was seen by the excited Spaniards. 1885 Daily Tel. 21 May 5/3 Strong exception is taken by the advocates of privateering to such words as corsair, picaroon, and the like being applied to a vessel armed with the authority of a letter of marque. 1910 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 18 June One [ship] was a merchantman, the other a Spanish picaroon. 2004 Times (Nexis) 20 Feb. (Features section) 22 They are caught only off Cornwall..by a guy near Padstow—in a tiny boat called a picaroon. †b. A slave ship. Cf. barracoon n. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > [noun] > involved in slave trade Guinea-man1695 slave-ship1796 slave-ship1796 slaver1830 Guinea ship1855 slave-trader1874 blackbirder1880 picaroon1896 1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 23 Then said the souls of the slaves that men threw overboard: ‘Kennelled in the picaroon a weary band were we.’ B. adj. (attributive). That is a picaroon (esp. in senses A. 1a and A. 1b); piratical, buccaneering; roguish. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > piracy > [adjective] piratical1550 picarooning1625 pirately1625 piratica1640 picaroon1650 sea-roving1841 1650 Perfect Diurnall No. 29. 322 One Captain Green who hath a Letter of Mart is come hither with..a little Pickaroon shallop. 1747 H. Laurens Let. 24 June in Papers (1968) I. 11 Our Coast has..been grosly insulted by two or three Piccaroon Privateers. 1858 Athenæum 1 May 556 What was the end of this picaroon woman? 1976 Minneapolis Tribune 10– d/3 Dour Methodist watermen whose picaroon ancestors once troubled the peace of the Chesapeake Bay. 1994 H. Bloom Western Canon ii. v. 141 Critics generally agree that the contrast between Ginés and the Don, picaroon trickster and chivalric visionary, is partly an opposition of two literary genres, the picaresque and the novel. Derivatives ˌpicaˈroon-like adj. rare ΚΠ 1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke xxii. 224 That lean, rakish, long-sparred, picaroon-like craft. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). picaroonn.² Brit. /ˌpɪkəˈruːn/, U.S. /ˌpɪkəˈrun/ Forms: 1800s– picaroon, 1900s– pickaroon. Origin: Probably a borrowing from French. Etymon: French piqueron. Etymology: Probably < French piqueron denoting various pointed instruments (e.g. early 16th cent. in Middle French in sense ‘sting of a bee’, 1577 in sense ‘thorn’, 1603 in sense ‘small prick’, 1611 (in Cotgrave) in senses ‘small pike’ and ‘goad’; now regional), although the English sense is apparently not paralleled in French < pique pike n.⁴ + -eron, diminutive suffix. North American. A long pole fitted with a spike or hook, used in logging and fishing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > spear > [noun] pricka1350 garfanglec1440 wawsper1472 spear1551 waster1580 fizgig1589 visgee1593 fish-spear1611 glaive1640 fish-giga1642 gaff1656 gig1705 lance1728 sticker1772 graina1818 picaroon1837 pickpole1837 fishing-spear1840 lily-iron1852 gambeering iron1883 mackerel gaff1883 the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumbering equipment > lumberer's hook pike-pole1765 picaroon1837 pickpole1837 fid-hook1851 driving-pike1877 swamp-hook1877 peavey1878 Samson1905 the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > other fishing equipment > [noun] > prongs or hooks for landing fish grab-hook1608 gaff1656 weir-hook1688 pew1765 click-hookc1810 picaroon1837 gaff-hook1844 pew-gaffa1884 fish-gaff1887 snigger1901 1837 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 354 The rafters..[make] use of a picaroon, or pole with a spike in the end of it, which is..driven into the boards, taking out perhaps a piece at each time. 1850 S. Judd Richard Edney iii. 42 Richard, armed with a picaroon, descended the slip..to the basin, where the logs lay in the water ready to be drawn in. 1924 Appleton (Wisconsin) Post-Crescent 8 May 14/2 The float of the woodyard..was decorated with spruce logs and lumber jacks with their picaroons. 1972 F. Ford Atush Inlet viii. 78 The crew worked with picaroons spiking the fish into the scow. 1998 Portland (Maine) Press Herald (Nexis) 12 Apr. 1 b The company specialized in logging tools like peaveys, pulp hooks and pickaroons that helped fuel that trade. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). picaroonv. Brit. /ˌpɪkəˈruːn/, U.S. /ˌpɪkəˈrun/ Forms: see picaroon n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: picaroon n.¹ Etymology: < picaroon n.¹ Compare earlier picarooning adj. Now rare. 1. intransitive. To act as a picaroon or pirate; to loiter. Also: †to skirmish (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > piracy > practise piracy [verb (transitive)] rove1548 pirate?1575 piratize1638 picaroon1675 1675 J. Crowne Countrey Wit iii. 31 These Night-Corsairs and Algerines call'd the Watch, that Pickaroon up and down in the Streets. 1724 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) (at cited word) To pickeroon,..to skirmish as Light-Horse-men do before the Main Battle begins. 1798 Capt. Winterfield Voyages, Distresses, & Adventures Capt. Winterfield 27 Nine weeks we were at sea,..cruising and pickarooning up and down. 1860 All Year Round 1 Sept. 492 The gates were strictly guarded, the spies pickarooning at every corner. 2. transitive. To prey upon (in quot. 1681 figurative); to exploit. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > exploit or take advantage of > specifically a person to prey upon1610 impose1667 picaroon1681 live1712 to twirl (a person) round one's finger1748 to get over ——1784 exploit1838 to play (it) low down (on)1864 to avail upona1871 pole1906 to put on1958 1681 E. Hickeringill Char. Sham Plotter in Wks. (1716) I. 212 He is the Land-Pirate, that Pickaroons Men's Lives and Estates, by putting out false Colours. 2004 members.cox.net 1 Nov. (O.E.D. Archive) The Boss invented and perfected it using Federal funds. The Feds own it and want it. The Boss has picarooned the Feds. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹adj.1624n.²1837v.1675
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