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English
Noun
patrico (plural patricos or patricoes)
- (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.
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Latin
Adjective
patricō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of patricus