Heres a fun thing for the kids!! Hang it from the ceiling (it includes hooks and everything to set it up). What a funnn swing!!!!!
How to talk like a pirate!!
- 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
Here's some more tips on how to talk like them there pirates!!
- Double up on all your adjectives and you'll be bountifully bombastic with your phrasing. Pirates never speak of "a big ship", they call it a "great, grand ship!" They never say never, they say "No nay ne'er!"
- Drop all your "g"'s when you speak and you'll get words like "rowin'", "sailin'" and "fightin'". Dropping all of your "v"'s will get you words like "ne'er", "e'er" and "o'er".
- Instead of saying "I am", sailors say, "I be". Instead of saying "You are", sailors say, "You be". Instead of saying, "They are", sailors say, "They be". Ne'er speak in anythin' but the present tense!
