piratical
adj/paɪˈɹætɪkɘl/US
Etymology
From Latin pīrāticus + -al, from Ancient Greek πειρᾱτικός (peirātikós); equivalent to pirate + -ical.
- derived from πειρᾱτικός
Definitions
Of, pertaining to, or similar to pirates.
- A nursery-maid is never afraid of what you people call work, So I made up my mind to go as a kind of piratical maid-of-all-work;
- He looks piratical, with his beard and long hair and single pearl earring, or like a jumble-sale 17th century nobleman.
Of a bird, practising kleptoparasitism.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for piratical. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA