Ahoy Matey! Pirates have long been a source of wonder and fascination for many. They’ve been featured extensively in literature, films, shows, and other works of art. Kids and adults alike love walking the walk and talking the talk, adding a bit of swagger and maybe donning an eye patch too. Pirates capture the fancy and interest, and it’s no wonder: Pirates are cool!
Do you remember going for the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and being super excited while having almost childlike happiness bubble inside you? Most of us adore that series. Well, some of it is because we love Johnny Depp, but it’s also because the topic of pirates is super interesting.
If your kids are currently obsessed with pirates, or if you and the other grown-ups have been having a bit of a pirate obsession of your own, then you’re probably looking to add more funny pirate sayings to your vocabulary. Well, we’ve got just what you need! Our extensive collection of funny pirate sayings span books, movies, series, famous people, and even real-life pirates. From hilarious sayings to laugh-out-loud jokes, you can find just what you need to feed your pirate hunger!
Whether it’s to use with kids during playtime, or just to integrate into your day-to-day conversations to make them more whimsical and fun, you’ll love adding a little extra magic to your day! And if you’re gonna be using these with your child, then be prepared to be a “cool mom” — that is exactly how your little one will see you when these funny pirate sayings come out of your mouth!
Funny Pirate Sayings: Famous Pirate Quotes
Some excellent and funny pirate sayings actually come from real-life pirates! Check out some quotes from pirates who were once or are still in existence in this world. Our collection of 215 funny pirate sayings and quotes arrrgh awesome and will make you laugh out loud!
“Damn my blood, I am sorry they won’t let you have your sloop again, for I scorn to do anyone a mischief, when it is not for my advantage.”
“There is none of you but will hang me, I know, whenever you can clinch me within your power.”
“Let’s jump on board, and cut them to pieces.”
“As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so unfit the sea, that men of courage must starve.”
“Under the leadership of a man you have all chosen to flee. We shall see how you prove yourselves under the hand of a woman.”
“Damn you villains, who are you? And from whence came you?”
“In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power.”
“Your words surround you like fog and make you hard to see.”
“Heaven, you fool? Did you ever year of any pirates going thither? Give me hell, it’s a merrier place: I’ll give Roberts a salute of 13 guns at entrance.”
“I am sorry to see you here, but if you had fought like a man, you needn’t be hanged like a dog.”
“For my part, I am the innocentest person of them all, only I have been sworn against by perjured persons.”
“If you’ll turn sober, and mind your business, perhaps in time I may make you one of my Lieutenants, if not, here’s a boat alongside and you shall be set ashore.”
“If there’s a man among ye, ye’ll come up and fight like the man ye are to be!”
“Damnation seize my soul if I give you quarters, or take any from you.”
“I am a man of fortune and must seek my fortune.”
“I am a free prince, and I have as much authority to make war on the whole world, as he who has a hundred sail of ships at sea and an army of 100,000 men in the field.”
“When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.”
“Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and then there is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.”
“Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.”
“Damn ye, you are a sneaking puppy, and so are all those who will submit to be governed by laws which rich men have made for their own security.”
“A merry and short life will be my motto.”
Funny Pirate Sayings: Sayings About Pirates
To learn more about pirates, here are a handful of funny pirate sayings and quotes from well-known and famous individuals.
“I think pirates, like astronauts, particularly for a boy, are always kind of worth thinking about.”
“It is when pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves.”
“The pirate he will sink you with a kiss, he’ll steal your heart and sail away.”
“It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.”
“Even pirates, before they attack another ship, hoist a black flag.”
“There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.”
“A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean.”
“Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today, mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.”
“Life’s pretty good, and why wouldn’t it be? I’m a pirate, after all.”
“In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.”
“It’s funny that pirates were always going around searching for treasure, and they never realized that the real treasure was the fond memories they were creating.”
“It’s the pirates’ courage that help them plunder riches.”
“If the pirate with a scarf had been more poetically minded, he’d have thought that her eyes were like a thousand emeralds, glittering in a far-off pirate treasure chest. But he wasn’t, so he just thought that she had really, really green eyes, a bit like seaweed.”
“I have a ship’s bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.”
“Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.”
“Suddenly you’re like a pirate, you’re 65 years old and you’ve got an earring.”
Funny Pirate Sayings: Pirate Love Quotes
From the mouths of film and literary pirates come very insightful and inspirational sayings about love and emotions.
“Ah. Love. A dreadful bond.”
“If you choose to lock your heart away, you’ll lose it for certain.”
“Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.”
“Since we met in love, let us part in love.”
“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”
“You can be the gentleman and shoot the lady and starve to death yourself.”
“My heart will always belong to you.”
“You need to find yourself a girl mate. Or perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one, and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You’re not a eunuch are you?”
“Fate has brought us together again.”
“Look, I don’t mean to be rude, but this is not as easy as it looks so I’d appreciate it if you wouldn’t distract me.”
Funny Pirate Sayings: Quotes From The ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean’ Films
We can’t have a list of pirate sayings without quotes from Tinseltown’s Captain of the Black Pearl, Captain Jack Sparrow! The character, portrayed by Johnny Depp, has a ton of fun quotes that are definitely worth a look.
“You may kill me but you might never insult me.”
“I love those moments. I like to wave at them as they pass by.”
“You’re the ones in the need of rescuing and I’m not sure if I’m in the mood.”
“You can never predict when they’re going to do something incredibly … stupid.”
“My tremendous intuitive sense of the female creature informs me that you are troubled.”
“Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.”
“Me? I’m dishonest and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It’s the honest ones you want to watch out for.”
“Close your eyes and pretend it’s all a bad dream. That’s how I get by.”
“Did no one come to save me just because they missed me?”
“Why should I sail with any of you? Four of you tried to kill me in the past, one of you succeeded.”
“Did everyone see that? Because I will not be doing it again.”
“But better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all.”
“If you choose to lock your heart away, you’ll lose it for certain.”
“Why fight when you can negotiate?”
“I’ve got a jar of dirt!”
“The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Do you understand?”
“The seas may be rough but I am the Captain! No matter how difficult, I will always prevail.”
“This is the day you will always remember as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow.”
“Crazy people don’t know they’re crazy, therefore I’m not crazy, isn’t that crazy?”
“Batten down the hatches, mates, it’s gonna get ugly! Relatively speaking.”
“Risky thing, helping slaves escape.”
“Spanish pirates! Vagabonds and lummoxes! What are they doing in our Caribbean, I’d like to know? Don’t they have their own sea to pillage and plunder?”
“James Norrington: You are without a doubt the worst pirate I’ve ever heard of.
Jack Sparrow: But you have heard of me.”
“Will Turner: This is either madness, or brilliance.”
Jack Sparrow: It’s remarkable how often those two traits coincide.”
“No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder.”
“You can always trust the untrustworthy because you can always trust that they will be untrustworthy. It’s the trustworthy you can’t trust.”
“Nobody moves! I’ve dropped my brain.”
“The code is more what you’d call ‘guidelines’ than actual rules.”
“Will Turner: You cheated! Jack Sparrow: Pirate.”
“If I don’t kill a man every now and then, they forget who I am.”
“I’m disinclined to acquiesce to your request.”
Funny Pirate Sayings: Pirate Quotes From Films
Below, we’ve got pirate sayings from various films about pirates.
“Captain Bully Hayes: Are you putting down in that book that I’m a pirate?
Writer: Well, in a manner of speaking, I suppose I could say that I am, yes.
Captain Bully Hayes: Good! Because I am! And a damn good pirate too.”
“The only two things a pirate’ll run for is money and public office.”
“The Great Gonzo: I thought pirates had talking parrots as pets.
Long John Silver: Talking… parrots?
Bad Polly: What an imagination. First pirates, now talking parrots, what’s next?”
“We have been boarded by four armed pirates. You know the drill. We stay hidden no matter what.”
“You know, the problem with being the last of anything, by and by there will be none left at all.”
“You got the makings of greatness in you, but you got to take the helm and chart your own course!”
“Geoffrey Thorpe: Is a thief an Englishman who steals?
Doña Maria: It’s anybody who steals… whether it’s piracy or robbing women.”
“On the clearest of nights, when the winds of the Etherium were calm and peaceful, the great merchant ships, with their cargos of Arcturian solar crystals, felt safe and secure. Little did they suspect that they were pursued by… pirates. And the most feared of all these pirates was the notorious Captain Nathaniel Flint.”
“ Pirate King: Tell him men, have you missed anything these 20 years at sea. Other pirates: Sex!”
“Well I’ve been at sea since I was one, how the hell would I know how to ride a horse?”
“Salvaging is saving, in a manner of speaking.”
Funny Pirate Sayings: ‘Treasure Island’ Quotes
Treasure Island is a literary piece of art written by Robert Louis Stevenson and this novel is a minefield of stellar, hilarious pirate quotes.
“You can kill the body, Mr. Hands, but not the spirit;”
“I’m a plain man; rum and bacon and eggs is what I want,”
“There’s never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a’terward.”
“If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.”
“Sir, with no intention to take offense, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.”
“Them that die’ll be the lucky ones.”
“It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes, and you may lay to that.”
“Fifteen men on the Dead Man’s Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”
“If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel.”
I’ve sailed the seas and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul, provisions running out, knives going, and whatnot. Well, now I tell you, I never seen good come o’ goodness yet. Him as strikes first is my fancy; dead men don’t bite; them’s my views—amen, so be it.”
“We must go on, because we can’t turn back.”
“There’s never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a’terwards.”
Funny Pirate Sayings:’ Black Sails’ Quotes
Black Sails is hailed by many as among the best pirate shows in recent years — and its got a load of awesome pirate quotes too!
“Our crew is less than a day removed from a mutiny. I don’t care how much gold you dangle in front of them, that hatred doesn’t just disappear.”
“It isn’t about getting them to like you; it’s about reminding them how much they dislike each other.”
“I don’t really want to be on this crew a day longer than is absolutely necessary. I don’t want to be a pirate. I’m not interested in the life.”
“When the king brands us pirates, he doesn’t mean to make us adversaries. He doesn’t mean to make us criminals. He means to make us monsters.”
“Me, I can’t help myself. I see an opportunity, I take it. It’s a sickness. Truly.”
“When I take something from a man – his ship, his money, his life – I don’t hide behind a clerk. I don’t hide behind the law. I don’t hide behind anything. I look him in his eye and I give him every chance to deny me.”
“In the dark, there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it.”
“I built this from nothing. And none of it is real.”
“In the end, that’s all I want: to walk away from the sea and find some peace.”
“I don’t believe I can find anywhere else on earth–a big prize. And with it freedom. From water, from hunger, from wages.”
“Everyone is a monster to someone. Since you are so convinced that I am yours. I will be it.”
“No matter how many lies we tell ourselves, no matter how many stories we convince ourselves we’re a part of, we’re all just thieves awaiting a noose.”
“But I cannot believe that there is all there is. I cannot believe that we are so poorly made as that.”
“Be honest. Are you as surprised as I am that I’m the only one here behaving myself?”
“I’m tired of the energy it takes to believe you. To believe in you.”
Funny Pirate Sayings:’ One Piece’ Quotes
One Piece is a huge hit and has been on for many years, and with good reason: It’s got a whole bunch of funny and insightful sayings about pirates and about life at sea.
“You want to keep everyone from dying? That’s naive. It’s war. People die.”
“Protecting what we cherish most is the reason why we formed this pirate crew.”
“What do you know of death?! Have you ever died?! You think death will preserve your cause forever?! Ridiculous! Death doesn’t leave anything behind!”
“You need to accept the fact that you’re not the best and have all the will to strive to be better than anyone you face.”
“Once a person passes on, only dead bones remain. If there is one thing I can’t stand, it is a person with no respect for life.”
“It may be hard right now… But you must silence those thoughts! Stop counting only those things that you have lost! What is gone, is gone!”
“There is someone that I must meet again. And until that day…not even Death itself can take my life away!”
“Only weak men would die after someone spared their lives!”
“Those who are willing to fight beside me in the battle for freedom, come aboard my ship, I will change this world someday, I swear it.”
“It’s not about whether it’s impossible or not, I’m doing it because I want to.”
“My wealth and treasures? If you want it, I’ll let you have it. Look for it, I left all of it at that place!”
“You can’t see the whole picture until you look at it from the outside.”
“People’s dreams… Never end!”
“If I can’t even protect my captain’s dream, then whatever ambition I have is nothing but talk!”
“Forgetting is like a wound. The wound may heal but it has already left a scar.”
“What good is a treasure if I am alone?”
“Hero? No! We are pirates! I love heroes but I don’t wanna be one!”
“A true pirate should fear nothing, not even death.”
“I don’t wanna conquer anything. It’s just that the person with the most freedom on the sea is the pirate king.”
“You might be alone at the moment… But someday… You’ll definitely find nakama! No one is born in this world to be alone!”
Funny Pirate Sayings:’ Assassin’s Creed Black Flag’ Quotes
Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag is a popular game that is based on pirates. It’s also got plenty of great, funny pirate quotes!
“I am with riches and reputation, feeling no wiser than when I left home.”
“All men are sheep. And that an old wolf like me deserves every ounce of blood he draws.”
Mary Read: Nothing is true. Everything is permitted. This is the world’s only certainty.”
“If I don’t find some means to make the fifth a quiet and cozy voyage, I’d rather sink to the Devil’s doorstep than call myself cap’n another year.”
“It’s all a big show. Give your quarry something to fear, some hellish thing from a fever dream, and men will drop to their knees pleading for their Lord before all else!”
“In a world without gold, we might have been heroes!”
“This is a jackdaw… But if you should ask him, he would claim to be an eagle.” “In a world without gold, we might have been heroes!”
“Shut your fucking gob or I’ll fill it with shot, you hear me?”
“I’m not of the same mind, mate. But I won’t begrudge you the state of yours.”
“We’re Assassins and we follow a creed, aye. But it does not command us to act or submit – only to be wise.”
Funny Pirate Sayings: More Pirate Quotes
Pirates are super cool, and so it follows that there’s an endless supply of incredible, funny pirate sayings and quotes. Here’s a boatload more to add to your resource of pirate quotes to use at just the right time!
“Under a black flag we sail and the sea shall be our empire.”
“If I download a movie in Jamaica… Am I a pirate of the Caribbean?”
“No cause is lost if there is but one fool left to fight for it.”
“I just want to be a pirate… But I couldn’t get my ship together.”
“Live in the sunshine, swim in the ocean and drink in the wild air.”
“The rougher the seas, the smoother we sail. Ahoy!”
“Keep calm… and say Arrr!”
“Right from the Voyage of Noah, surviving was by sailing. Avast ye! and sail against the tides.”
“A Pirate’s favorite movie is one that is rated “ARRRR”!”
“May your anchor be tight, your cork be loose, your rum be spiced and your compass be true.”
“Keep Ca…. Why is the rum gone?”
“I don’t give a ship!”
“If rum can’t fix it, you are not using enough rum.”
“Be who you arrrr…”
“May your blade always be wet, and powder dry.”
“Pirate code: Ne’er say thank you. Say, I’ll kill you tomorrow.”
“To life, love and loot.”
“To err is human but to arr is pirate!!”
“Money can’t buy you happiness… But it can buy you rum!”
“Time flies when you’re having rum!”
“Don’t ever let people that see what’s in your left hand, see what’s in the right…”
“You arrrrrr my most sought after treasure!”
“I’m not drunk!”
“I just walk and talk like Captain Jack Sparrow!”
“There comes a time in most men’s lives where they feel the need to raise the Black Flag.”
“The cure for anything is saltwater, sweat, tears or the sea.”
“There comes a time in most men’s lives where they feel the need to raise the Black Flag.”
“Loot is first and wimmen second. Because if ye have the first ye’ll have the second, but if ye have the second ye won’t have the first for long!”
“Keep calm and… drink a bottle of rum.”
“Ahoy! Let’s trouble the water!”
“I feel underdressed without some pirate garb.”
“When I grow up, Aye wanna be a pirate!”
“There is nothing like the smell of cannon fire in the morning.”
“Drinking rum before 10:00am makes you a pirate, not an alcoholic.”
“When a pirate grows rich enough, they make him a prince.”
“Ye can have me booty but leave me chest alone!”
“Sailors tell stories. Pirates make legends!”
“Pirates never go shopping. Unless by shopping, you mean pillaging.”
“Avast ye landlubbers! Ye can throw ye lunch in Davy Jones’ locker, but not yer homework!”
“Only pirates can get away with saying “Yo ho”!”
“Always be yourself, unless you can be a pirate… Then always be a pirate.”
“Of course you had a choice, Riden. You just had a hard one. And you chose the easy option, which was to do nothing.”
“Sometimes I pretend to be normal but it gets boring. So I go back to being a pirate.”
“My mom would not let me see the pirate movie because it was rated rrrrr.”
“The captain is always right.”
“Keep calm and… say ‘Arrr’.”
“All for rum and rum for all!”
“Arrrgh means “I Love You” in pirate.”
“Sometimes it just takes a pirate to get the job done.”
“Take what you can, give nothing back.”
“What happens on the boat stays on the boat.”
“Work like a captain, play like a pirate.”
“Stop being like a Des – PIRATE person.”
“Eat like a king, swear like a sailor and… drink like a pirate!”
“Why are pirates better than everyone else? They just Arhhhhhhhhh…”
“Piracy is the way o life. Ahoy.”
“Actually, I quite fancy you from time to time. When you’re not yelling at me.”
“Who is a pirate’s favorite Star Wars character? Arrrgh-2 D2”
“You will always remember this as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow.”
“You just have no right to violate any one’s PIRACY!”
“Even pirates need to clean their room!”
“A pirate is for life, not just for Christmas!”
“If ye can’t trust a pirate, ye damn well can’t trust a merchant either!”
“Even pirates need to take baths.”
“Drink up me hearties yo ho …a pirates life for me!”
“A pirate is a man that is weak to achieve but too strong to steal from even the greatest achiever.”
“Pirates wash their hands because germs are everywhere.”
“Fetch me another Cabin Boy…This one be split!”
“Yarrrr! There be only two ranks of leader amongst us pirates! Captain and if you’re really notorious then it’s Cap’n!”
“Share everything and become a pirate!”
“Arr! I just met ye, and this be crazy, but here’s me number, so call me, matey!”
“A friend can betray you, but an enemy will always stay the same.”
“Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.”
“Every salty pirate needs a beautiful mermaid.”
“Even pirates wash their booty!”
“I may be a pirate, but I bristle at the thought of a woman losing her heart. Unless it’s over me.”
“You had me at ahoy!”
“The existence of the sea means the existence of pirates.”
“Touch my loot, feel my boot!”
“Cruise like a sailor… Party like a pirate!”
“It’s all fun and games. Until someone needs an eyepatch!”
“Where there is a sea there are pirates.”
“Run? I thought you said rum!”
“I’m a pirate, a weather beaten pirate, am sailing foreva!”
“I found this humerus!”
“May your anchor be tight, your cork be loose, your rum be spiced, and your compass be true!”
“A smooth sea never made a skilled pirate.”
“Arrr we having fun yet?”
“What’s a pirate’s favorite fast food restaurant? Arrrrbys!”
“Why be a princess… When you can be a pirate!”
“Why do we need Algebra? Finding X is only important if you are a pirate.”
“I’m an instant pirate, just add rum!”
“Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.”
“One does not simply hand over a jar of dirt.”
“The rougher the seas, the smoother we sail. Ahoy!”
“There’s very little admirable about being a pirate. There’s very little functional about a pirate. There’s very little real about a pirate.”
“But… why is the rum gone?”
“Pirates could happen to anyone.”
“It is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.”
“I don’t really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I’d be a contrarian pirate.”
“In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates.”
“But the pirates never showed, and the slaves found themselves trapped on a narrow peninsula. (Lesson: never trust pirates).”
“The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate.”
“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”
“When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.”
“[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.”
“Keep calm and… raise the Jolly Roger.”
“Always be who you arrrr.”
Funny Pirate Sayings: Pirate Jokes
Because pirates are so awesome and fascinating, they are also the source of some pretty hilarious pirate jokes! Get a taste of pirate humor right here!
“What’s the pirate movie rated? – Arrr!”
“What’s the problem with the way a pirate speaks? – Arrrrticulation!”
“What kind o’ socks does a pirate wear? – Arrrrgyle!”
“A little boy is trick or treatin’ on Halloween by himself. He is dressed as a pirate. At one house, a friendly man asks him, ‘Where are your buccaneers?’ The little boy responds, ‘On either side o’ me ‘buccan’ head!'”
“The pirate walks into the bar with a ships wheel attached to the front o’ his trousers. The bartender asks, ‘What the hell is that ships wheel for?’ The pirate says, ‘I don’t know, but it’s drivin’ me nuts!'”
Q: Why does it take pirates so long to learn the alphabet?
A: Because they can spend years at C.
Q: Where can ye find a pirate who has lost his wooden legs?
A: Right where ye left him.
Q: How do pirates prefer to communicate?
A: Aye to aye!
Q: What lies at the bottom of the ocean and twitches?
A: A nervous wreck.
Q: How much did the pirate pay for his peg and hook?
A: An arm and a leg.
Q. What’s a pirate’s favorite type of exercise?
A. The plank
“How will you save a pirate who is dying? CPARRRRR”
“Why do pirates not shower before walking the plank? They would wash up on shore later.”
“What do you call a pirate with both eyes and legs? Rookie”
“Why are pirates called pirates? Because they arrrrr!”
Where do pirates keep their valuables? In a jarrrrr
Conclusion
Are you hoping to sound cool in front of your little kid? Or maybe you’re just hoping to make them laugh with pirate sayings since they seem to be obsessed with anything related to pirates? Fret not, for we’ve got you covered.
Hope these funny pirate sayings gave you – and your kids! – a good ol’ hearty chuckle!
Talk Like A Pirate: A Pirate Term Decoder
Here are some commonly used pirate terms and their meanings, so you can better master the language and be an expert at pirate speak!
| Pirate Term | Meanings |
|---|---|
| Pillage | Rob or plunder |
| Savvy? | Do you understand or do you agree? |
| Thar she blows! | When you see a whale |
| Blow me down | Oh my god |
| Avast ye | Look at this |
| Heave Ho | Put your back into to it |
| Landlubber | Big, slow clumsy person who doesn't know how to sail |
| Scurvy dog | The pirate is talking directly to you with mild insult |
| Cleave him to the brisket | To cut across the chest, from one shoulder to the lower abdomen |
| Shiver me timbers! | Oh my god |
| Scallywag | Mild insult akin to rapscallion or rogue |
| Hornswaggle | To defraud or cheat out of money or belongings |
| Old Salt | An experienced sailor |
| Three sheets to the wind | Someone who is very drunk. One sheet is mildly drunk and four sheets is passed out |
| Batten down the hatches | Put everything away on the ship and tie everything down because a storm is brewing |
| Dead men tell no tales | Phrase indicating to leave no survivors |
| Scuttle | To sink a ship |
| Seadog | Old pirate or sailor |
| Ahoy! | Hello! |
| Ahoy, Matey | Hello, my friend! |
| The Black Spot | Death threat |
| Aaaarrrrgggghhhh! | The exhortation of discontent or disgust (not to be confused with 'Arrr!' which is a commonly used pirate sound used to express your, well, pirate-ness) |