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patrico

patrico noun: a gypsies' or beggars' hedge priest.

Noun

patrico (plural patricos or patricoes)

  1. (obsolete, slang, thieves' cant) A gypsies' or beggars' hedge priest.
    • And these, what name or title e'er they bear, / Jarkman, or Patrico, Cranke, or Clapper-dudgeon, / Frater, or Abram-man; I speak to all / That stand in fair election for the title / Of king of beggars.Beggars' Bush (17th-century play), act 2 scene 1
    • There was a proud patrico and a nosegent, he toke his Jockam in his famble, and a wapping he went, he dockt the Dell, he prygge to praunce, he byngd a wast into the darkemans, he fylche the Cofe without any fylche man.1871, Charles Hindley, The Old Book Collector's Miscellany

Forms of patrico

pluralpatricos
pluralpatricoes

Questions about patrico

What does patrico mean?
Patrico means a gypsies' or beggars' hedge priest.
What part of speech is patrico?
Patrico is a noun.
What is the plural of patrico?
The plural of patrico is patricos.

Words near patrico in the dictionary

  1. Patricksburg
  2. Patrickswell
  3. patriclan
  4. patriclans
  5. patriclinous
  6. patrico
  7. patricoes
  8. patricos
  9. Patricroft
  10. patridge
  11. patridges

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