The Only Use of
desperado
in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- At last she come and begun to ask me questions, but I COULDN'T answer them straight, I didn't know which end of me was up; because these men was in such a fidget now that some was wanting to start right NOW and lay for them desperadoes, and saying it warn't but a few minutes to midnight; and others was trying to get them to hold on and wait for the sheep-signal; and here was Aunty pegging away at the questions, and me a-shaking all over and ready to sink down in my tracks I was that…
Chpt 40desperadoes = bold outlawsunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use desperados.
Definition:
a bold outlaw -- especially from the American old west