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patricos

patricos is the plural of patrico.

Meaning of patrico

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

Questions about patricos

What is patricos the plural of?
Patricos is the plural of patrico.

Words near patricos in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: patricos (page history and authors); patrico (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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