Brewer's: Picaroon

A pirate; one who plunders wrecks. (French, picoreur, picorer, to plunder; Scotch, pikary, rapine; Spanish, picaron, a villain.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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