Avast ye, landlubbers, and baton down the hatches for Talk Like a Pirate Day be here!  I love “Talk Like a Pirate Day.”  In order to properly celebrate, you need to have some pirate vocabulary at your disposal. There’s a SLEW of terms at islands.com.  I’ve narrowed down their list to the top 15 pirate phrases to know for today.

For a quick tutorial on talking like a pirate, check this out:

Now that you know HOW to say it, here are some words and phrases you can throw around.

Check out my pirate vocabulary guide:

• Ahoy

  Hello!

• Avast ye

  Your attention, please.

• Batton down the hatches

  Prepare for the imminent storm.

• Booty

  Stolen treasure or other goods

• Davy Jone's Lockker

  A reference to the bottom of the sea that holds the pirates that have been killed or drowned.

• Grog

  booze

• Hornswaggle

  the pirate way to bamboozle, trick, or swindle others.  Example:  That landlubber hornswaggled me grog and ended up in Davy Jone’s locker.

• Landlubber

  Someone who lacks skill in the art of sailing and the seas

• Me

  My – examples: listening to me radio.

• Old Salt

  OG sailor

• Plunder

  Stolen treasure (booty, loot)

• Shiver me timbers

  I was surprised by those events.

• Thar she blows

  I believe I see a whale in the distance.

• Three sheets to the wind

  drunk.

• Wench

  woman

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