1/26/2024 0 Comments Pig and whistle vessel meaning![]() It’s actually easy to remember the whistle signals, if you think one blast means port and two blasts means starboard, per the guide below from the 67 th edition of Chapman Piloting and Seamanship, which I helped edit (unabashed plug): He suggests you print it out and tape it somewhere near your helm. As a result, Dick Hermann, from Green Cove Springs, Florida, who cruises on Avocet, a Great Harbor 37, posted this easy guide (above) for the two most common whistles and responses. There’s been some discussion about this, which could lead to confusion at best and a collision at worst, on the America’s Great Loop Cruisers’ Association blog lately. Or you get a response that makes no sense whatsoever, such as four or seven blasts. You sound the proper whistle signal, indicating what you’re going to do – and nothing happens. Rosie = Rosie Lee = tea e.g.We’ve all probably had the same experience, particularly on the inside passages of the ICW or the rivers of the Great Loop, when you’re about to pass another boat.Richard = Dicky Bird = bird (slang for girl) but also Dicky Bird = word.Richard = Richard the Third = turd (lump of faeces).Raspberry = raspberry tart = fart (as in "blowing raspberry/ies" = making rasping noises with your mouth).Pony = pony and trap = crap (note: Cockneys also use "pony" to mean £25 - hopefully the meaning is clear from the context).Plaster = Plaster of Paris = Aris = Aristotle = bottle = bottle and glass = arse (a three-stage rhyme) Pigs ears = big beers (large glasses of Ale ).Orchestras = orchestra stalls = balls (Orchestra stalls = part of a concert or other hall.Nobbies = Nobby Stiles (English footballer) = piles (haemorrhoids).Mutton = Mutt and Jeff = deaf = named after Mutt and Jeff, two early 20th century comic strip characters.Minces (or mincers) = mince pies = eyes.Mickey Bliss = piss (as in "take the Mickey" = "take the piss" = satirise).Loaf = loaf of bread = head ("use your loaf").Lionels = Lionel Blairs (English variety performer) = flares (as in flared trousers).Jimmy = Jimmy Riddle (unknown person, not the character killed during the Waco siege)= piddle or widdle (urinate).Arthur Rank (1930s UK flour magnate and film producer) = wank (i.e. ![]() Jack = Jack Jones = alone ("On my Jack" = "On my own").Gregory = Gregory Peck = neck, or cheque.Farmers = Farmer Giles = piles (slang for haemorrhoids ).Emmas = Emma Freud (English author and columnist) = haemorrhoids.hand, now chiefly when balled into a fist Dicky or Dickie = dickie bird = word = as in "not a dickie", or even "not a dickie bird".Currant bun = sun or The Sun newspaper.Creamed = cream crackered = knackered (i.e.testicles, but usually meant in the sense of 'rubbish' as in "You're talking a load of cobblers") Cobblers = cobblers' awls = balls or 'bollocks' (i.e.Chalfonts = Chalfont St Giles = piles (i.e.Brahms = Brahms and Liszt (classical composers) = pissed (i.e.courage Courage also happens to be the name of a brewery) contracted to brassic) = boracic lint = skint (i.e. Berk or Burk = Berkshire Hunt = cunt (used as an insult, never as an anatomical reference).Aris = Aristotle = bottle & glass = arse (a two-stage rhyme).Adam and Eve = believe = as in "would you Adam and Eve it?".Other examples of Cockney Rhyming Slang, or phrases inspired by it, are: There is no hard and fast rule for this, and you just have to know whether a particular expression is always shortened, never shortened, or can be used either way. Sometimes the full phrase is used, for example "Currant Bun" to mean "The Sun" (often referring to the British tabloid newspaper of that name). For instance, "face" would be replaced by "boat," because face rhymes with "boat race." Similarly "feet" becomes "plates" ("plates of meat"), and "money" is "bread" (a very common usage, from "bread and honey"). Rhyming slang works by replacing the word to be obscured with the first word of a phrase that rhymes with that word. It developed as a way of obscuring the meaning of sentences to those who did not understand the slang, though it remains a matter of speculation whether this was a linguistic accident, or whether it was developed intentionally to assist criminals or to maintain a particular community. Up until the late 20th Century, rhyming slang was also common in Australian slang, probably due to the formative influence of cockney on Australian English. Many of its expressions have passed into common language, and the creation of new ones is no longer restricted to Cockneys. Cockney Rhyming Slang Cockney Rhyming SlangĬockney rhyming slang is a form of English slang which originated in the East End of London.
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