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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 .

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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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