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‖ picador|ˈpɪkədɔː(r), pɪkəˈdɔː(r)|
[Sp., lit. ‘pricker’, f. picar to prick, pierce.]
In a bull-fight, A mounted man, who opens the game by provoking the bull with a lance.
1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) III. 771/2 The bull..has to contend first against the picadores, combatants on horseback, who, dressed according to the ancient Spanish manner..wait for him, each being armed with a long lance. 1865F. Sayer in Fortn. Rev. No. 5. 616 Miserable hacks..that a picador would be ashamed to ride in a bull ring. 1892E. Reeves Homeward Bound 257 The picador prods the bull in the back to weaken him while he is goring the horse.
b. fig. An agile debater, one who engages in a skirmish of wit.
1876J. Weiss Wit, Hum. & Shaks. iii. 86 Then there is that picador of a clown, who plants in Malvolio's thin skin a perfect quick-set of barbed quips. 1882Pall Mall G. 22 Dec. 19/1 He steps hither and thither..like a literary picador amid a troop of huge, blundering cattle. |