English
freebooting
Freebooting comes from English freebooter ‘a type of pirate’.
- English1500–presentfreebooter‘a type of pirate’
- Englishearliest quotation 1843freebooting
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- English1500–presentfreebooter‘a type of pirate’
- Englishearliest quotation 1843freebooting
Earliest quotation: 1843, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson: “In one respect, as I hinted above, it is…”
Every English word from English freebooter
Today it means
noun Piracy or plundering.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / English freebooter / freebooting