copping a page from raynor’s book of tricks, but I’ve long wanted to take advantage of my university’s free subscription to the Oxford English Dictionary Online. Here is a list of the words in the english langauge derived from “pirate” (first used by Trevisa, John de in 1439: Pirrus..was a rouere and robbed on the se..Off such robbyng be sclaundre & be diffame This woord Pirate off Pirrus took the name.”):
anyone who wants definitions is more than welcome to ask.
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