desperado

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 159 words | Copyright

desperado †one in despair; desperate adventurer XVII. refash. of the somewhat earlier †desperate, sb. use of next (XVI), after Sp. words in -ADO.

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