National Talk like a Pirate day is coming up this Friday, September 19th. (Yes, there is such a day. Just google it and find out!) Anyway, in honor of this glorious occasion and since I've a bit o' experience wit' the gentlemen o' fortune, I thought it would be a fun idea to give you five pirate phrases and see if you can figure out what they mean. The person who comes the closest in meaning will receive (drumrolll) 3 Christian Fiction books.
1. Any one of my pirate novels you wish (The Redemption, The Reliance, The Restitution)
2. Trophy Wives Club by Kristin Billerbeck
3. On Sparrow Hill by Maureen Lang
Here be the phrases:
1. Show a glim: "Show a glim, ye drunken dogs!"
2. Open yer lugholes: "Come over 'ere and open yer lugholes."
3. Scut: "Why, the yellow scut!"
4. Cold-gutted: "Ye cold-gutted shark!"
5. Fo'c'sle: "Belay there ye fo'c'sle swab!"
I'll judge the entries when I return home from my conference (Sept 18-21st. I'll be in Minnesota at the Mall of America for a book signing) and will post the winner on Sept 24th.
Good luck to ye and a fair wind!
1) Get to work!
ReplyDelete2)Open your eyes
3) scardy cat
4)cold hearted
5)stupid
Well, these are my guesses. :) Look forward to see what they actually mean. :D
1, Show you're sword
ReplyDelete2, Open the doors so you can push the cannon up to them and get them ready to be lit....
3, A coward or something along the lines that means 'dirty rotten rat'
4, a swindler? Someone who can smooth talk ya into a bad deal...AKA picture a used car sales man....
5, The eyeglass?
MaryLu, this was so much fun! You’d think that after seeing all the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, I would know some of these meanings. But I didn’t, so I had fun trying to research them. Here’s my best guess:
ReplyDelete1. Show a glim: "Show a glim, ye drunken dogs!"
- “Glim” is an old word for candle or lantern (the term glimmer of light, for example), so it must be some kind of light – or even an eye.
2. Open yer lugholes: "Come over 'ere and open yer lugholes."
- Open your ears; listen
3. Scut: "Why, the yellow scut!"
- Contemptible person, chicken, coward
4. Cold-gutted: "Ye cold-gutted shark!"
- This is actually a quote from the movie Captain Kidd. Here’s what I found: “When shipmate Povey, in a goat's beard and black tri-cornered hat, glares at Captain Kidd and accuses of him of being a ‘cold gutted shark,’ Kidd responds by dropping his eyes demurely. ‘Ahh! You’re a flatterer,’ he says, and the effect is girlish and ridiculous.” I would assume this means cold- or hard-hearted, evil to the core.
5. Fo'c'sle: "Belay there ye fo'c'sle swab!"
- “Fo’c’sle” is short for "forecastle," the forward part of the ship, usually containing the crew's quarters. And “swab” is a seaman's mop for drying decks.
1. Shine the candle/light here. Or it could be a figure of speech and mean: Show me your potential, what you’re made of…
ReplyDelete2. Get over here and open your ear(holes).
3. You miserable, good for nothing scummy coward. (comparing him to a scared, short-tailed animal; rabbit).
4. Someone whose cold, distant, unreachable, hard-hearted. (again comparing him to animal…in this case a -cold-blooded- shark).
5. Stop there you lowly rat. Forecastle - forward most part of the ship, also the living quarters for the crew , hence them being somewhat beneath the Captain and making them subject to ridicule. Thus the stating of the words “fo’c’sle swap” because it was a lowly, unwanted chore mopping up the ships floor. If it was being said by the captain he likely didn’t even know the sailors’ name and just recognized him from “swabbing” floors on the “fo’c’sle”.
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There are my guesses. Hard work, but good brain-food!!
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1. Show a glim: "Show a glim, ye drunken dogs!"
ReplyDeletemeaning: LOOK ALIVE! or Wake up.
2. Open yer lugholes: "Come over 'ere and open yer lugholes."
Get over here and hoist the sails!
3. Scut: "Why, the yellow scut!"
Coward!
4. Cold-gutted: "Ye cold-gutted shark!"
Cold-gutted: Unfeeling, no morals, viscious, "bad to the bone"! :)
meaning that Shark would be a trickster, liar, ruthless person.
5. Fo'c'sle: "Belay there ye fo'c'sle swab!"
Get to your quarters! - Fo'c'sle meaning Forecastle