A Dictionary of Naval Slang (ePub)
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For centuries the sailors of the Royal Navy have been famous for their colourful language. Trapped aboard leaky ships and creaking vessels for months, sometimes years, on end, the crews developed a peculiar language all of their own.
Veteran sailor Gerald O'Driscoll celebrated the Royal Navy's heydey and preserved its unique language in this hilarious and fascinating collection.
Taking the reader from 'Acting green' all the way to 'Water-rat', A Dictionary of Naval Slang is a treasury of naval argot, jargon, lingo and cant, and a window on the lost world of living on the high seas.
First published in 1943, this modern gift edition comes with a foreword by author and former Royal Navy submariner Richard Humphreys.
Clampy - Nickname for the owner of very large feet.
Gutzkrieg - A pain in the stomach.
Rum-fiend - As the term implies, a man who is a glutton for rum.
Scaly-back - A veteran; one who has been too long in the navy.
Tin-eye - Nickname given to anyone who sports a monocle.
Wall-flower - Scathing reference to any ship which remains moored to a dockyard wall for a long period.
RICHARD HUMPHREYS is a British writer and memoirist. Born in Wolverhampton, he spent many years in the Royal Navy as a diver and submariner, including multiple patrols on the UK's Polaris class nuclear submarines in the 1980s. His experiences aboard Britain's nuclear deterrent formed the basis of his best-selling memoir Under Pressure: Living Life and Avoiding Death on a Nuclear Submarine, published in 2019. He lives in London.
- Autor: Gerald O'Driscoll
- 2021, 224 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Swift Press
- ISBN-10: 1800750730
- ISBN-13: 9781800750739
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.11.2021
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