Scabby sea bass A stalwart of pirate vocabulary used to essentially to call your antagonist a rotten old fish! A funny but effective pirate insult by today's standards.
Matey: What pirates call each other/fellow shipmates. "Hey, Matey, can ye grab me some grog?"
Ahoy, Matey. Hello, my friend! Ahoy, Me Hearties! Hello, my friends, crew members, etc.; addressed to group.
Bully – Brave, self-confident, like a bull. Sailors, who were faced deadly dangers in their work every day, and were strangers in every new port they entered, prided themselves on their bravery. During the Golden Age of Piracy, there was no downside to this. It was high praise to call a man a “bully boy.”
Bully boys, a term prominent in Navy chanties and poems, means in its strictest sense, "beef eating sailors." Sailors of the Colonial Navy had a daily menu of an amazingly elastic substance called bully beef, actually beef jerky.
Plunder: To steal. Run a Rig: Play a joke on someone. Scallywag: What an experienced pirate would call a newbie. Scurvy: A derogatory adjective meaning lowly or disgusting. Seadog: A veteran sailor.
The captain of a pirate ship had to possess the qualities of leadership and courage. Generally chosen for his daring and dominating character, a pirate captain often was admired for his cruelty and destructiveness.
In some rare instances, pirates like Blackbeard took their nickname and used it every day. Others like Samuel Bellamy had a lot of nicknames like Black Sam Bellamy, Robin Hood of the Sea, Prince of Pirates, Black Bellamy, but never actually called themselves by those names.
Ahoy – A pirate greeting or a way to get someone's attention, similar to “Hello” or “hey!”. Arrr, Arrgh, Yarr, Gar – Pirates slang used to emphasize a point.
davy Jones' Locker. A fictional place at the bottom of the ocean. In short, a term meaning death.
The most common usage is Australian slang for a man searching around for casual sex, as in "on the pirate" or the verb "to pirate". It has also been used to describe a pimp who steals a prostitute from another pimp.
The linguist Molly Babel points out that our current associations of pirate speech came about largely through film, and that one of the primary influences was the native West Country dialect of Robert Newton, who played the main characters in several early pirate movies: Treasure Island in 1950, Blackbeard the Pirate ...
Here are the basics:
It all begins with the pronouns. Say “ye” instead of “you,” as in “How are ye feeling today?” And use “me” in place of the first-person possessives, such as “I just ate me breakfast,” or 'Take your hands off me booty!
Shanties are songs that were sung by sailors and pirates as they sailed the seven seas, intended to keep the men both entertained and motivated during their long spells at sea. The word shanty is sometimes spelled “chanty” as it is derived from the French word “chanter,” which means to sing.
It's difficult to know what female pirates were called. Many disguised themselves as men to be able to fit into pirate crews undetected. Female pirates were a minority – and openingly female pirates – even rarer. In today's popular culture you can find references to girl pirates, women pirates, she-pirates and so on.
Ahoy is the most versatile pirate word used in movies and books. Sailors use it to call to other ships, greet each other, warn of danger, or say goodbye.
Orcas, or killer whales, are widely recognized as, well, kind of being the jerks of the ocean community. They move in packs, teaming up to essentially bully and terrorize everything from seals to sharks.
Rockstar has announced that forthcoming PlayStation 2 title Bully, which has been the subject of much controversy recently, is getting a name change. From now on, the game will be known as Canis Canem Edit - Latin for Dog Eat Dog. Rockstar has not revealed why the move has been made.
“Shanty Boys” were what lumberjacks were called in the logging boom of the late 1800s, especially in Michigan around Lake Superior.