piratical
English
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Adjective
piratical (comparative more piratical, superlative most piratical)
- Of, pertaining to, or similar to pirates.
- 1879, W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, The Pirates of Penzance, Act I,
- A nurserymaid is not afraid of what you people call work, So I made up my mind to go as a kind of piratical maid-of-all-work.
- 1879, W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, The Pirates of Penzance, Act I,
- (ornithology) Of a bird, practising kleptoparasitism.
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