piratical

English

Alternative forms

• piratic

Adjective

piratical (comparative more piratical, superlative most piratical)

1. Of, pertaining to, or similar to pirates.
   • 1879, W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, The Pirates of Penzance, Act I,^[1]

     A nurserymaid is not afraid of what you people call work, So I made up my mind to go as a kind of piratical maid-of-all-work.

2. (ornithology) Of a bird, practising kleptoparasitism.