Usually means: Scottish sailor, inspiration for Crusoe.
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▸ noun:  (167613 December 1721) a Scottish privateer and Royal Navy officer who spent four years and four months as a castaway after being marooned by his captain, initially at his request, on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean.


Opposite:
sociable, gregarious, outgoing

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