Picaroon

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 77

pik-a-rōōn′, n. one who lives by his wits: a cheat: a pirate.— adj. Picaresque′ .— Picaresque novels , the tales of Spanish rogue and vagabond life, much in vogue in the 17th century. [Sp. picaron — pícaro , a rogue.]