Some Piratey Lingo To Use This Halloween!
If you are going to dress up as a pirate girl this Halloween, finish off the whole effect with some piratey lingo to go along with it!
I did some research and this is what I came up with .
Ahoy – Hello there!
Matey - Generally friendly thing to call a person.
Hearty - More friendly than matey .
Avast Ye! – Get a load of this!
Grog - Watered-down rum.
Bilge - The unwanted water collecting in the bottom of your ship!
Belay - Stop it ( belay that ___ translates to cut that ____ out ).
Hempen halter – The noose!
Dance the Hempen Jig – To hang, (the noose was often made of hemp fibers)
Pieces of eight -silver coins.
Doubloon - gold coins.
All Hands Hoay! – All Hands on Deck! When everyone on the ship was called to the deck – usually for action.
Hornswaggle – To cheat or defraud someone.
Dungbie – rear end.
Freebooter Another name for a pirate.
Landlubber – ‘Lubber’ is an old English word for a big, slow, clumsy person, and this term was aimed at those persons onboard who were not very skilled or at ease with life at sea.
Picaroon This one s from the Spanish word for rascal, it was applied to pirates that was satirical or humorous.
Powder Monkey – A gunner’s assistant.
Be in Davy’s Grip: To be close to death, or frightened.
Have the Davies or the Joneseys: To be frightened.
See you to Davy Jones: To threaten to kill some one.
And then finally, the old favorite .….
Shiver me timbers! – Akin to “Blow me down!”, an expression of shock or disbelief, believed to come from the sound the ship made when ‘shocked’ by running aground or hit by a cannon blast.
Add some of these pirate sayings to your conversation this Halloween and just watch your friends faces – you ll be the most original pirate girl at the party!
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I found interesting word list here
I can start practicing it with my friends…Ahoy matey…Shiver me timbers!
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Hmm, there’s a few pirate phrases in there I didn’t know at all, and some I thought I knew but I would have used them incorrectly. Dungbie might be my favorite though. I wonder how many people I could call a Dungbie without them knowing I was insulting them. LOL! In any case, when I dress my grandson as a pirate this year, I’ll pick a few of the more popular phrases for him to use in the video we’ll create to share with the rest of the family. Thanks!