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buccaneer

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˌbʌkəˈnɪɚ/Part of speech verb, nounSorted abcceenruStarts with BEnds with R0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. live like a buccaneer

Word origin

From French boucanier, from boucaner (“to smoke or broil meat and fish, to hunt wild beasts for their skins”), from boucan (“(Tupi-style) grill”), from Old Tupi moka'ẽ, mboka'ẽ (“wooden grill”). By surface analysis, buccan + -eer.

Used in a sentence

  • “Heard of him!” cried the squire. “Heard of him, you say! He was the bloodthirstiest buccaneer that sailed.[…]”
  • In 1596 and 1597 he bucaneered against Sao Thomi, the Portuguese slaving settlement off the coast of West Africa, and in the Spanish Main

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