picaro
nounEtymology From Spanish pícaro.
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.
- Related terms
- picaresque, picaroon