Pyrate Speak

Submitted by admin on August 25, 2010 - 1:47pm

Pyrate Speak is a very colorful language. The most important thing to remember is to live in the moment, present tense if you will. Begin with I be..., Thar be... etc

Here are some terms to liven up even the dullest conversation. Plunder at will me hearty!

· Ahoy: Hey!

· Avast: Stop!

· Aye: Yes

· Black spot: to be 'placin' the black spot' be markin' someone for death.

· Booty: treasure

· Buccaneer: a pirate who be answerin' to no man or blasted government.

· By the Powers!: an exclamation, uttered by Long John Silver in Treasure Island!

· Cat o' nine tails: whip for floggin' mutineers ‘n freaky pyrates

· Corsair: a pirate who be makin' his berth in the Med -.that sea 'tween Spain and Africa, aye!

· Davy Jones' Locker: the bottom o' the sea, where the souls of dead men lie

· Doubloons: pieces of gold...

· Fiddlers Green: the private heaven where pirates be goin' when they die.

· Furner: a ship which be yer own, not one ye steal an' plunder.

· Gentlemen o' fortune: a slightly more positive term fer pyrates!

· Go on the account: to embark on a piratical cruise

· Grog: A pirate's favorite drink – Heavy Seas Beer

· Jack: a flag or a sailor

· Jolly Roger: the skull and crossbones, the pirate flag!

· Keelhaul: a truly vicious punishment where a scurvy dog be tied to a rope and dragged along the barnacle-encrusted bottom of a ship. They not be survivin' this.

· Landlubber: "Land-lover," someone not used to life onboard a ship.

· Lily-livered: faint o' heart

· Loaded to the Gunwales (pron. gunnels): drunk

· Matey: A shipmate or a friend.

· Me hearty: a friend or shipmate.

· Pieces o' eight: pieces o' silver which can be cut into eights to be givin' small change.

· Privateer: a pirate officially sanctioned by a national power

· Scallywag: A bad person. A scoundrel. A maker of bad brew

· Scurvy dog!: a fine insult!

· Shiver me timbers!: an exclamation of surprise, to be shouted most loud.

· Son of a Biscuit Eater: a derogatory term indicating a bastard son of a sailor

· Sprogs: raw, untrained recruits, those drinking mass produced ‘lite’ beers