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buccaneer

The origin and history of buccaneer.

Etymology

From French boucanier, someone who smoked meat on a boucan (grill), from the Tupi word mboka'e — the name shifted from meat-smokers to the pirates who adopted their lifestyle in the Caribbean.

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