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mocaem
Tupi · pre-1500s
"a wooden meat-smoking frame"
named the wooden frame used to smoke and preserve meat
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boucan
French · 1600s
"a wooden frame for smoking meat"
French settlers in the Caribbean adopted the word for the same smoking technique
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boucanier
French · 1660s
"a meat-smoker, later a pirate"
applied to hunters who smoked meat this way, many of whom turned to piracy
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buccaneer
English · 1690s
"a pirate, especially one who raided Spanish ships in the Caribbean"
anglicized from French to describe Caribbean pirates
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