In a room where everyone is talking like pirates, lubber is ALWAYS an insult. But not if you’re talking like a pirate! Then the word lubber becomes one of the more fierce weapons in your arsenal of piratical lingo. On TLAP Day – More likely than not, you are a lubber 364 days of the year. A lubber is someone who does not go to sea, who stays on the land. Lubber – (or land lubber) This is the seaman’s version of land lover, mangled by typical pirate disregard for elocution. “Is that a hornpipe in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me? Or both?” On TLAP Day – We are not big fans of the capering, it’s not our favorite art form, if you will, so we don’t have a lot to say on the subject, other than to observe that the common term for being filled with lust is “horny,” and hornpipe then has some comical possibilities. Hornpipe – Both a single-reeded musical instrument sailors often had aboard ship, and a spirited dance that sailors do. If some prissy pedant purses his lips and protests the word grog can only be used if drinking rum and water, not the Singapore Sling you’re holding, keelhaul him! On TLAP Day – Drink up, me hearties! And call whatever you’re drinking grog if you want to. We won’t stop you! Water aboard ship was stored for long periods in slimy wooden barrels, so you can see why rum was added to each sailor’s water ration – to kill the rancid taste. Grog – An alcoholic drink, usually rum diluted with water, but in this context you could use it to refer to any alcoholic beverage other than beer, and we aren’t prepared to be picky about that, either. It sounds a lot worse, doesn’t it? On TLAP Day – When dinner is served you’ll make quite an impression when you say, “Well, me hearties, let’s see what crawled out of the bung hole.” That statement will be instantly followed by the sound of people putting down their utensils and pushing themselves away from the table. The stopper in the barrel is called the bung, and the hole is called the bung hole. Since bilge rat is a pretty dirty thing to call someone, by all means use it on your friends.īung hole – Victuals on a ship were stored in wooden casks. It’s important that everyone understand you are smarter, more powerful and much luckier with the wenches than they are. On TLAP Day – A lot of guy humor involves insulting your buddies to prove your friendship. A bilge rat, then, is a rat that lives in the worst place on the ship. It’s loaded with ballast and slimy, reeking water. You’ll be surprised how effective this is.īilge rat – The bilge is the lowest level of the ship. Always preceded by “me,” as in, “C’mere, me beauty,” or even, “me buxom beauty,” to one particularly well endowed. Try these for startersīeauty – The best possible pirate address for a woman. Once you’ve mastered the basics, you’re ready to start expanding your pirate vocabulary. “Arrr!” can mean, variously, “yes,” “I agree,” “I’m happy,” “I’m enjoying this beer,” “My team is going to win it all,” “I saw that television show, it sucked!” and “That was a clever remark you or I just made.” And those are just a few of the myriad possibilities of Arrr! Advanced pirate lingo or On beyond “Aarrr!” It can be used in a sense of surprise, “Whoa! Get a load of that!” which today makes it more of a “Check it out” or “No way!” or “Get off!”Īye! – “Why yes, I agree most heartily with everything you just said or did.”Īye aye! – “I’ll get right on that sir, as soon as my break is over.”Īrrr! – This one is often confused with arrrgh, which is of course the sound you make when you sit on a belaying pin. Master them, and you can face Talk Like a Pirate Day with a smile on your face and a parrot on your shoulder, if that’s your thing.Īvast! – Stop and give attention. We’ve got links to a few glossaries, but if you just want a quick fix, a surface gloss, a “pirate patina,” if you will, here are the five basic words that you cannot live without. Pirate lingo is rich and complicated, sort of like a good stew. * or as our UK mates apparently prefer, “… Speak Like A Pirate”
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