buccaneer
buc·ca·neer / ˌbəkəˈnir/ • n. hist. a pirate, originally off the Spanish-American coasts. ∎ a daring, adventurous, and sometimes reckless person, esp. in business.ORIGIN: mid 17th cent. (originally denoting European hunters in the Caribbean): from French boucanier, from boucan ‘a frame on which to cook or cure meat,’ from Tupi mukem.
buccaneer
buccaneer †curer of flesh on a barbecue; sear-over. XVII. — F. boucanier, f. boucaner cure flesh on a boucan or barbecue (Tupi mokaém). The sb. and vb. boucan, buccan (from the F. sb. and vb.) appear earlier in XVII. The orig. application was to French and English hunters of oxen and swine in San Domingo and Tortugas.
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