Buccaneer Definition

bŭkə-nîr
buccaneers
noun
buccaneers
A pirate, or sea robber, esp. one who raided along the Spanish coasts of America in the 17th cent.
Webster's New World
A ruthless speculator or adventurer.
American Heritage
A pirate.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
verb
To plunder shipping; act as a buccaneer.
American Heritage
To show boldness and enterprise, as in business, often in a reckless or unscrupulous way.
American Heritage
To engage in piracy against any but one's own nation's ships.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Buccaneer

Noun

Singular:
buccaneer
Plural:
buccaneers

Origin of Buccaneer

  • French boucanier from boucaner to cure meat from boucan barbecue frame of Tupian origin Tupí mukém rack

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • French boucanier, from boucaner (“to smoke or broil meat and fish, to hunt wild beasts for their skins”).

    From Wiktionary

Buccaneer Sentence Examples

  • The lad was a born champion and buccaneer.

  • Out of such conditions arose the buccaneer, alternately sailor and hunter, even occasionally a planter - roving, bold, unscrupulous, often savage, with an intense detestation of Spain.

  • In this same year a Spanish fleet of fourteen sail met, but did not engage, ten buccaneer vessels which were found in the Bay of Panama.

  • For while the buccaneer forces included English, French and Dutch sailors, and were complemented occasionally by bands of native Indians, there are few instances during the time of their prosperity and growth of their falling upon one another, and treating their fellows with the savagery which they exulted in displaying against the subjects of Spain.

  • A work published at Amsterdam in 1678, entitled De Americaensche Zee Roovers, from the pen of a buccaneer named Exquemelin, was translated into several European languages, receiving additions at the hands of the different translators.

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