Ahoy salty dogs an’ wenches aboard me furner “Big White”. By order of Cap’n Plugs an’ Cap’n Treacle, today be “Talk Like a Pirate Day” an’ no speakin’ the king’s own be permitted. Here be yer talkin’ points fer the day:
- Ahoy: Hey!
- Avast: Stop!
- Aye: Yes
- Black spot: to be 'placin' the black spot' be markin' someone for death.
- Booty: treasure
- 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.
- 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 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!: 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
- 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 bloody 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
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