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September 28, 2011

Naval slang revisited

I posted on naval slang and the book Jackspeak a few days ago (here), but there's a more comprehensive article on the BBC website today (here) with more examples of naval slang from Rick Jolly's Jackspeak. Here's a selection:

Grey Funnel Line: the Navy

Snotty: midshipman

Buckets of sunshine: nuclear weapons

Proctoheliosis/helioproctosis: a condition where people believe the sun shines from their backsides

Putting the Queen to bed: lowering the White Ensign at the end of the day

 

More in the interesting article.

Posted at 09:34 PM in Miscellaneous, Words and phrases |

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