Avast, matey! If you don't want to be taken for a Lubber, you need to bone up on the pirate lingo!

Ahoy!         "Hello!"

Avast!        "Hey!" "Stop!" "No way!"

Aye              "Yes, I most heartily agree."

Aye aye!    "Absolutely, I'll see to it as soon as I finish my nap."

Arrr             Can mean "yes," "I'm happy." or "Great beer!" Not to be confused

                        with "Aarg!" (which is the sound you  make when you accidentally

                        sit on the sharp pointy end of an anchor!)

Beauty       Pirate word for a wench, always preceded by 'me,' as in

                      "Why are ye  walkin' away, me beauty?"

Bilge rat    A first rate insult, as in "Belay that racket, ye smarmy bilge rat." 

                      The bilge is the lowest deck of the  ship, usually filled with slimy water.  

                      Of  course, if someone made me stay in the bilge, I'd make a racket too!

Grog          Watered rum. Since water onboard was stored in slimy wooden

                      barrels, it was  usually anything but fresh. Grog helped kill the rancid taste.

                      And several thousand brain cells.

Hornpipe   A single reed flute and the wild dance usually done to its music.

                      Not to be confused with the pirate pick up line, "No, me beauty,

                      that's not a  hornpipe in me pocket. I really am happy to see ye!"

Keelhaul   A really horrible way to spend an afternoon. 

                      Pirates who violated one of the articles (rules they all voted on and agreed

                      to before the  voyage began) might be punished by being tied to a rope that

                      ran under the keel of the ship. The offender was shoved into the water

                      on one side of the ship, dragged against the barnacled-covered hull and

                      hauled out on the other.         Rinse, and repeat.

Lubber      An insulting word for a landsman. No one wants to be a lubber.

Smartly   To do something quickly.

                      As in "Nip down to the bookstore smartly and pick up your copy of

                      PLEASURING THE PIRATE before they're all gone!"