picaresque

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction

   Picaresque novels.

Common collocations

• picaresque hero Adjective + noun

From picaro (“adventurer, rogue”) + -esque (suffix meaning ‘in the style or manner of’ forming adjectives), modelled after Spanish picaresco (“in the style or manner of a picaro; picaresque”), from pícaro (“rogue”) + -esco (suffix forming adjectives indicating a relation). Compare French picaresque (attested later than the English word), Italian picaresco, Portuguese picaresco.

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