love pirates? here’s some vocabulary. start practicing huh?<\/p>\n
* Ahoy: Hey!
\n* Avast: Stop!
\n* Aye: Yes
\n* Black spot: to be ‘placin’ the black spot’ be markin’ someone for death.
\n* Booty: treasure
\n* Buccanneer: a pirate who be answerin’ to no man or blasted government.
\n* By the Powers!: an exclamation, uttered by Long John Silver in Treasure Island!
\n* Cat o’ nine tails: whip for floggin’ mutineers
\n* Corsair: a pirate who be makin’ his berth in the Med-…Medi-…that sea ‘tween Spain and Africa, aye!
\n* Davy Jones’ Locker: the bottom o’ the sea, where the souls of dead men lie
\n* Doubloons: pieces of gold…
\n* Fiddlers Green: the private heaven where pirates be goin’ when they die.
\n* Furner: a ship which be yer own, not one ye steal an’ plunder.
\n* Gentlemen o’ fortune: a slightly more positive term fer pirates!
\n* Go on the account: to embark on a piratical cruise
\n* Grog: A pirate’s favorite drink.
\n* Jack: a flag or a sailor
\n* Jolly Roger: the skull and crossbones, the pirate flag!
\n* 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.
\n* Landlubber: “Land-lover,” someone not used to life onboard a ship.
\n* Lass: A woman.
\n* Lily-livered: faint o’ heart
\n* Loaded to the Gunwales (pron. gunnels): drunk
\n* Matey: A shipmate or a friend.
\n* Me hearty: a friend or shipmate.
\n* Me: My.
\n* Pieces o’ eight: pieces o’ silver which can be cut into eights to be givin’ small change.
\n* Privateer: a pirate officially sanctioned by a national power
\n* Scallywag: A bad person. A scoundrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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