patrico

See also: patriĉo

English

Noun

patrico (plural patricos or patricoes)

1. (slang, obsolete, thieves' cant) A gypsies' or beggars' hedge priest.
   • Beggars' Bush (17th-century play), act 2 scene 1

     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.

   • 1871, Charles Hindley, The Old Book Collector's Miscellany:

     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.

Anagrams

• apricot, aprotic, parotic

Latin

Adjective

patricō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of patricus