Friday, July 3, 2009
Pirate Talk 101: The Part after the Third - Epithets
Epithets are a defamatory or abusive words; basically name calling.
| Pirate | Translation |
| Modifiers |
|
| Barnacle-covered | Old / slow |
| Bile-ladden | Detestable |
| Bilge-sucking | I think it’s obvious |
| Blundering | Clumsy |
| Boosy | Drunk |
| Dull-(witted) | Stupid |
| Feckless | Incompetent |
| Foppish | Dandy |
| Half-masted | Worthless |
| Half-witted | Foolish |
| Loutish | Stupid |
| Rutting | Horny |
| Shirking | Lazy |
| Skulking | Cowardly |
| Sniveling | Whining |
| Sodden | Drunken |
| Twopenny | Cheap |
| Nouns | |
| Blighter | Annoying / Jerk |
| Buffoon | Idiot |
| Bugger | Jerk |
| Crow’s-bait | Scumbag |
| Curmudgeon | Greedy / Difficult / Ornery |
| Dolt | Fool |
| Fuddler | Drunkard |
| Git | Lowlife |
| Laggard | Slow |
| Loggerhead | Fool |
| Louse | Disgusting person |
| Popinjay | Arrogant / ostentatious |
| Princock | Conceited / Arrogant / Overbearing |
| Snip | Insignificant person |
| Sot | Drunkard |
| Sprat | Little piece of crap |
| Turncoat | Treachery |
This primer was summarized from the book "The Pirate Primer: Mastering the Language of Swashbucklers and Rogues" by George Choundas and available here.
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