Desperado
WordNet
noun
(1) A bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier)
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From Spanish desesperado, past participle of desesperar, from Latin disperare, “despair”, “lose hope”, from prefix dis- + sperare, “hope”.
Noun
- a bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West
Quotations
- 1918, Willa Cather, My Antonia, Mirado Modern Classics, paperback edition, page 6
- Surely this was the face of a desperado.