Fwd: picaro: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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From: Dictionary.com <doctor@dictionary.com>
Date: 2013/10/7
Subject: picaro: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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	Word of the Day for Monday, October 7, 2013 picaro \PIK-uh-roh, PEE-kuh-\, noun: a rogue or vagabond. The prototypical picaro normally finds himself in a cruelly unyielding world where he must simultaneously serve the needs of several masters. So numerous are these competing demands that, in order to survive, he invariably becomes a master of deception, simulation and multiple disguise. -- William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, 1848 He is rich, this picaro, O'Brien. But there is, also, a proverb — that no riches shall avail in the day of vengeance. -- Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Romance, 1903 Picaro came to English from Spanish in the 1600s, though the etymology of this term is disputed. Read the full entry | See synonyms | Comment on today's word | Suggest tomorrow's word Yesterday's word | Previous words | Help Words of the Day? How about words of timeless wisdom? Introducing our Quotes channel! "Life itself is a quotation." - Jorge Luis Borges Check out the Quote of the Day ›› Word Dynamo by Dictionary.com Developmental linguists tell us that there are at least four distinct things that one must learn to acquire a language. We must know how to speak it and write it, we must know how to put words in correct order and - perhaps most importantly - we must know what the words mean. This last... Read more ›› Dictionary.com Word of the Day You are subscribed to the Word of the Day as: hectorpinillos@gmail.com Subscriber since: June 03, 2013 Unsubscribe from the Word of the Day To subscribe to the Word of the Day by email, please send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com ©2013 by Dictionary.com, LLC. 555 12th Street Suite 500 Oakland CA 94607 Subscriptions to the Word of the Day can also be managed online   Tell a friend about the Word of the Day!

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