Wörterbuch

Ahoy – Hey!
Arrr – Yes, I agree, I’m happy
Avast – Stop!
Aye – Yes Bilge
Rat – an insult.
Black spot – to be ‹placin› the black spot› be markin› someone for death. As in Treasure Island.
Booty – treasure
Bung hole – Food on a ship were stored in wooden casks. The stopper in the barrel is called the bung, and the hole is called the bung hole.
Buccanneer – 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
Corsair – a pirate who be makin› his berth in the Med-…Medi-…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 pirates!
Go on the account – to embark on a piratical cruise.
Grog – A pirate’s favorite drink.
Hornpipe – Both a single-reeded musical instrument sailors often had aboard ship, and a spirited dance that sailors do.
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.
Lass – A woman.
Lily-livered – faint o› heart
Loaded to the Gunwales (pron. gunnels) – drunk
Matey – A shipmate or a friend.
Me Beauty – A lovely lady.
Me hearty – a friend or shipmate.
Me – My.
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.
Scurvy dog! – another fine insult!
Shiver me timbers! – an exclamation of surprise, to be shouted most loud.
Smartly – do something quickly.
Son of a Biscuit Eater – a derogatory term indicating a son of a sailor.
Sprogs – raw, untrained recruits.
Squadron – a group of ten or less warships.
Squiffy – a buffoon.
Swaggy – a scurvy cur’s ship what ye be intendin› to loot!
Swashbucklin – fightin› and carousin› on the high seas!
Sweet trade – the career of piracy.
Thar – The opposite of «here.»
Walk the plank – this one be obvious.
Wench – a lady, although ye gents not be wantin› to use this around a lady who be stronger than ye.
Wi› a wannion – wi› a curse, or wi› a vengeance. Boldly, loudly!
Yo-ho-ho – Pirate laughter