picaro

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See also: pícaro

English

Etymology

From Spanish pícaro.

Noun

picaro (plural picaros)

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

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Interlingua

Etymology

From Spanish pícaro.

Pronunciation

Noun

picaro (plural picaros)

  1. rascal, picaro