picaresque 7pik#! resk$8
adj.
5Sp picaresco < p>caro, rascal, orig. knavish, vile6
1 of, like, or having to do with sharp-witted vagabonds or rogues
2 designating or characteristic of a kind of fiction that originated in Spain and deals episodically with the adventures of a hero who is or resembles such a vagabond or rogue