picaro

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From Spanish pícaro

picaro (plural picaros)

rogue, adventurer
- "The novel's sexual/textual "intercourse" revises the phallic economy Brown posits, not only in plotting polymorphous sexual possibilities for its nonphallic picaro." Lawrence, Karen R. "Orlando's Voyage Out" in Virginia Woolf: an MFS Reader Maren Linett, ed. The John Hopkins University Press, 2009. Pages 327-354.