Picaro
noun ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From Spanish pícaro.
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