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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