![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom")
Sailors’ Lang. 23: Bumboat—A boat that comes off to ships to sell provisions, fruit, &c.at bum-boat, n.
Sailors’ Lang. 23: Bumboat—A boat that comes off to ships to sell provisions, fruit, &c. Sailors’ Lang. xii: Out of his sea fare [...] Jack nevertheless manages to manufacture several dishes, of which the names are worthy of the contents and flavour [...] ‘dogsbody,’ ‘seapie,’ ‘choke-dog.’.at choke-dog (n.) under choke, v.
Sailors’ Lang. xii: Out of his sea fare [...] Jack nevertheless manages to manufacture several dishes, of which the names are worthy of the contents and flavour. ‘Lobscouse,’ ‘dandyfunk.’ [Ibid.] Dandy funk —A mess made of powdered biscuit, molasses and slush [i.e. skimmed fat].at dandyfunk, n.
Sailors’ Lang. xii: Out of his sea fare [...] Jack nevertheless manages to manufacture several dishes, of which the names are worthy of the contents and flavour [...] ‘dogsbody,’ ‘seapie,’ ‘choke-dog.’ [Ibid.] 42: Dogs-body — A mess made of pea-soup, powdered biscuit, and slush.at dogsbody, n.
Sailors’ Lang. 42: Dollop — A lump, a piece: as in ‘a dollop of duff’.at dollop, n.
Sailors’ Lang. xii: Dough jehovas are a Yankee pudding.at dough-Jehovahs (n.) under dough, n.
Sailors’ Lang. xiii: It is peculiar to the sailor to call all foreigners ‘Dutchmen’. No matter whether a man be a Dane, a German, a Norwegian, a Swede.at Dutchman, n.
Sailors’ Lang. 103: Pinch-gut—A mean purser. Pinch-gut pay—Short allowance money.at pinch-gut, adj.
Sailors’ Lang. 75: Jiggered — Jiggered up, I’m used up.at jiggered, adj.1
Sailors’ Lang. xiii: ‘Lobster’ is another of his terms for the military man.at lobster, n.1
Sailors’ Lang. xi: But the lack of variety is no obstruction to the sailor’s poetical inspiration when he wants the old man to know his private opinions without expressing them to his face.at old man, n.
Sailors’ Lang. xiii: The merchant seaman [...] does not apparantly blush to figure as ‘Jack Muck’ and ‘Shellback’.at shell-back (n.) under shell, n.
Sailors’ Lang. 145: Tap the admiral— Said of a man who would drink anything.at tap the admiral (v.) under tap, v.2
Sailors’ Lang. xii: Tea is ‘water bewitched.’.at water bewitched (n.) under water, n.1
no more results