Show s mixed amed titles title I 1 filibuster freebooter and buccaneer are words curiously interrelated the french and the english sea adventurers once made common cause against spanish settlements in the new world and au all three came in describe the rude sea soldiers who despoiled the spanish main and the th e towns upon the coasts of the spanish possessions filibuster is said to be the result of an attempt to make a french word of freebooter and the english borrowed it back from the french because it sounded less frankly brutal than the english word buccaneer au was originally french in form and it meant at first firs t one who hunted the boucan or wild cattle and hogs bogs of the W west e st indies then one who made jerk jerked e d meat of their flesh and finally because this meat was used to provision the ships of the sea rovers a filibuster buster or freebooter |