Pussers how we talk - a language all our own
What sets sailors apart from our civilian counterparts is our truly unique language.I was thinking with the new generation sailors just how much of terminology has survived the test of time, so i am going to pen a dit about two blokes in a mess deck and see how much you can remember of our language . Hey Nobby are you steppin after secure? yeah Spike I'm steppin but I'm having a dohbes and a scran first. Not me mate I'm going Rners, theres a schooner with my name written on it up at Rockers, I'm meeting Spud my kellick dibby oppo from the fluffy duck up there . What's on for scran any rate nobby thats so good that you'd be waiting for it Tiddly Oggies and Corned Dog I love me corned dog smothered in Redders and RNers on a nice sanger nothing like it. I'll see you at rockers later then mate. I'll be there late Spike as I got to meet the squarie at Town Hall we are going to the dits.OK mate I will catch you ron . So that's the way and we talked in my time . I know plenty out there can decipher this but the new ones coming through, well, it be interesting to hear their slant on things. Maybe I may start a dictionary of pussers words and save it for coming generations be a good project to start .

I wouldn't go to Rockers unless there were a few scuppers in the bar, leave the squarie at home of course.

Yes Neil Two meanings for a scupper in pussers Now which one to put in the dictionary .Id forgotten that word and until you mentioned it I hadn't used it or heard it since i got out of pussers .Yes the scuppers up at rockers Good enough for a quick bump in the night but not good enough to take home and meet mum.

may be have a goffa or two at harry de wheels dressed in our tiddly gear. have a feed of piss strainers or train smash for scran at breakfast and a roast for lunch with gippers and spuds then duff to follow , off to the heads to lighten the load with our RN runners on .then a feed of macckers after the beer ration on board the Grey funnel line . oh what a great life we had in those far off days doing the washing in a kero tin with a pogo stick ...showing some squarie the Golden Rivet down aft. and not having to have your turn in the barrell. and having Beagels, dib dabs,stokers for mates . i'll leave now scrans off !shutters down best wishes johhno

Wonder if they still have pogo sticks Jonno probably one in the Maritime museum Mind you never showed my squarie the golden rivet Either what did i miss out on Good dit Jonno and read and understood Bravo Zulu mate see ya on the flip side.

Pussers Lingo
Pass the monkey spunk. Red dicks and piss strainers my favourite scran. I am on chooks because of that grunter! I blew all my freight up top on rabbits and I think I've got a load. Someone said I was going astern because of my cap. A cup of kai and I am ready for the guts. Knocker is having his horiscope read. Scrub around that mate. Have you heard the latest buzz. Mickey mouse kellick and 90 day wonders. I got a kit muster and cant find my housewife. Drop me off at the cabbage patch. A fanny of milk. Young snotty, Limers in the tropics, Nice rig, Gettas, Roseleaf, Beanie Boys Oops better stop there! :oops:

I paid off in 97 and understand all that has been posted, but i think we used a bit more milk when i was in Barry. I better go now i have a makers, straight to the Friscotorium.

yippie beans and bacon always went down well for brekkie, snags and steak at the banyan compliments of the starvo , pipe the dress of the day No 8's , steppin gear No1s with 28 inch bells going on a pissy run with your steppin oppo , takin the piss out of the OD's, white fronts and burburys , a few sheets under the wind at the buncha, gettin a shake to turn to . . regards johnno :twisted:

Quinny, You have started something here, that's for sure. Now what I would like to see you do is your dictionary ie: yippee beans = baked beans, brekkie = breakfast snags = sausages, etc. etc. Would be good if it was in alfa order also. Cheers,

Quinny, to start the ball rolling, go to the Pussers Greenies site, they have a very long list http://www.pussersgreenies.org/ scroll down on the left hand side of the home page to Slang. They also have a lit of nicknames

Kippy, Good place for Quinny to start but I would say half of what is on this thread is not on the greenie's site so he still has some work to do. Cheers

I agree there, but as I said it is a start for Quinny now and we expect him to finish the job. Dobber!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

playing tombola in the forrard seamans mess, emptying gash cans down the shit shute on the quarterdeck was always the highlight of my day, having a kit muster was my biggest nightmare often had to go to the scranbag and check it out for lost gear. :oops: chasing shithawks from outside the main galley at cerebus . telling a good dit to the chief why the thickers was lumpy. :wink: plenty of black jack in the hot pot . flashing up the oil burning range at the tross at 4am .. christ was i scared of that bastard ..Bobby Fenton used to sneek up behind me and drop a black tay on the deck and scare me sh---less. :shock: must sling me hammock and get some shut eye cheers johnno

Yes Johnno nothing like getting a young chef to flash up the deep fryer at the tross main and they were gas where you had to light the pilot light and hold the button down for a minute Then thed flash up and just as the poor unsuspecting wran usually Would let out a blood curdling scream when you dropped the meat boat behind her Oh the memories .Lumpy gravy ya say we had chinamans hats for blues like that Plenty of chefs made lumpy gravy they werent lumps chief just flavour buds .Its pissing down over this way in the city Of shirtlifters and churches Yes i do miss my navy slang and like the chance to use it on there when i can Cheers Quinny