Monday, March 21, 2011

Ff: Free Booting


Definition


To act as a plunderer,

Cocktail Party Banter


His wife left him because he was such a freebooter, he loafed, he squandered her money, he was such a bum.

Literary Context


Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman
Now, gentlemen, in square-sail brigs and three-masted ships, well-nigh as large and stout as any that ever sailed out of your old Callao to far manilla; this lakeman, in the land-locked heart of our America, had yet been nurtured by all those agrarian freebooting impressions popularly connected with the open ocean.

Audio Visual


Hunt for Words


I found this word in the Essay "Black Rednecks and White Liberals" by Thomas Sewall... the sentence the word was found in was: "Local feuding clans and freebooting marauders kept this region in an uproar, even when there were no military hostilities between the English and Scottish kingdoms."pg 5  I liked the way it sounded and wanted to use it in future writing.

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