What is the origin of the word "poopdeck?"?
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From the Latin, puppis, an elevated part of the deck at the stern of a ship.
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From: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-cho3.htm\n\nQ] From Dr Anthony Rea: “I live in Australia and a few years ago some friends visiting from Canada were perplexed by my father’s use of the term chock-a-block, meaning full. For example, “the street was chock-a-block with cars”. Are you able to shed any light on the origin of this phrase?”\n\n[A] Chock-a-block is actually a fairly widely known North American term, I’m told. I know it well and would use it, though there’s a faint air of being slightly out of date about it. In Britain, it’s now common to hear the abbreviated forms chocka (or chocker), which are both from World War Two services’ slang, and in Australia the closely related chockers.\n\nChock here is the same word as in chock-full, jam-packed full or filled to overflowing. One meaning of chock in the nineteenth century was of two things pressed so tightly against each other that they can’t move. This led to the nautical term that’s the direct origin of the phrase. Block refers to the pulley blocks of the tackle used for various hauling jobs on board ship. These worked in pairs, with the ropes threaded between them. When the men hauling tackle ropes had hoisted the load as far as it would go, the two pulley blocks touched and could move no further. They were then said to be chock-a-block, or crammed together.\n\nThe origin of chock is complicated and not altogether understood. It’s clear that there has been some cross-fertilisation between it and chock in the sense of a lump of wood used as a wedge to stop something moving. That’s closely enough related to our sense to make it seem as though it might be the same word. But the experts think that chock in chock-a-block actually came from chock-full.\n\nThat has been around at least since 1400. It comes from a different source, the verb chokken, as in the Middle English phrase chokken togeder, crammed together. This in turn may be from an Old French verb choquier, to collide or thrust. One of the problems of working out the origin has been that chock-full has appeared in several different spellings—including chuck-full and choke-full—reflecting users’ uncertainty about where it comes from.
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Sorry, I couldn't find the meaning anywhere but I guess it's an abbreviation of some sort.\nSome 5-6 years ago there were these really stupid toys called Furby and they made a sound just like that "wurrrrrrv". It's also like the sound a cat makes when you stroke her chin.
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Police / Con jargon.  Who knows which came from which.  Later slang brought into common usage through fictional writing (crime novels).\nSure, everyone seems to know that it means a false or trumped-up charge.\nUsed as an adjective, the word Bum means Inferior or Worthless (probably from German Bummler, meaning loafer).  The word Bummer is from the same root.\nRap is slang for punishment, as in Beat the Rap: slang for to escape punishment or be acquitted of a charge and Take the Rap, slang for to accept punishment or take the blame for an offense or error.  Rap is from the Middle English rappen, meaning punishment.
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It's a euphemism for "damn hell" originating in the late 19th or early 20th centuries, when many such euphemisms became popular, such as\n\nGee whiz\nGosh darn\nCrimeny\nJeez\nDash it all\nHoly cow\nHoly moley\nCripes\n...and many, many, many more.
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British racial term originating in the colonial period of the British Empire. It was generally used as a label for the natives of India, North Africa and the Middle East. By the 1950s it had become a pejorative term used in order to offend.\n\nThe origins of the term are unclear. Most dictionaries say "wog" either possibly or likely derives from the generic term golliwog after the Golliwogg, a "grotesque" blackface minstrel doll-character from a children's book published in 1895. Various facetious explanations include the claim that it originated from acronyms for "Westernized/Worthy/Wily Oriental Gentleman" or variants thereof, or for "Workers of Government" or "Wards of Government", used to refer to early immigrants into the United Kingdom. Such attempts to explain the word's origin are apocryphal at best.
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It comes from the early 1800s in London.  The term "pig" for a contemptable person was around a long time before that.  Particularly, the name refers to a certain group of Police called the Bow Street Runners that criminals referred to as China Street Pigs.
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If you mean, "why are the called skippers?", it's just a slang term.  Presumably it derives from maritime terminology.
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The act of eating poop.
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It came from England, bobby.  When women first started getting jobs on sailing ships, the sailors needed a polite way to say "I have to urinate". Since the bathroom cost two cents ( two pennies, or 2P), in those days sailors politely informed each other "I have 2P".
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There are many theories explaining the origin of the word. The debate is still open on that one.\n\nBritish troops gave new derogatroy meaning to the word when the played the song Yankee Doodle Dandy as an insult to the citizens of Boston ("doodle" was a slang word for 'dolt' or 'penis')\nThe version of the song we know today has been altered from the original.\n\nAfter the battles at Lexington and Concord, the Americans taunted the retreating British with the word, giving it a new complimentary sense.\n\nIt now generally refers to an American, without intending to insult.\nIt's most often used to describe residents of the New England states. It's simply a slang word no different than calling a Nova Scotian a "Bluenoser" (after the schooner), or someone from Ontario and "Upper Canuck". They are fun words that add colour to our speech.
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You need some seamen on your poopdeck. I think I have a few friends that'll hook you up
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Maybe you mean codswallop?\n\nIt means utter nonsense "What a load of codswallop"
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A fart is the cry of an imprisoned turd.  I'm not sure if the actual fart knows where it came from, but the turd apparently does, if it's screaming to get out.
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My web site has a story about Poopdeck Paul that mentions the Limbo contests.\nhttp://www.detroitkidshow.com/Poopdeck_Paul.htm\n I remember seeing on the show a Limbo expert who could Limbo under a pole held up by two Coke bottles.
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Seppo  \n \n Derogertory word used by the English and Australians for all American nationals. Derived from Rhyming slang (Septic Tank = Yank)
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Some of the words given by bmwdriver above aren't right. \n\nA foot path isn't a sidewalk; the right word is pavement.  Foot path is just a right of way for pedestrians only, i.e. no horses or vehicles.\n\nJersey is a particular type of sweater; the generic term is "jumper".\n\nPiss is most definitely not beer (though if you've been told this, it is probably a British person's opinion of American beer).  We use "beer" as well.  Piss is urine, though "pissed" is drunk, not angry and "On the piss" is going out for a session of heavy drinking.  "Taking the piss" is making a fool of someone or having them on.\n\nShag isn't sex itself, it's a verb meaning to have sex.\n\nThe usual ones that cause amusement are:\n\nBritish pants = US underwear (though we say that as well)\nBritish trousers = US pants\nBritish fanny = US <censored by Yahoo>, but put it this way, British fannies are female only and round the front, not the back.\n\nFor far more answers to this question than will fit here, see the link below, which has a searchable US/UK equivalents dictionary.\n\nOh, and to answer the second half of the question:\n\nBugger is gay penetrative sex (verb) or someone who practises it (noun) and derives from "Bulgarians", who were (falsely) accused of such practices in the middle ages.   It's strength as an expletive has declined over the years and so it would not be unusual to hear "Bugger me!" as an exclamation of surprise (and not an invitation) or to hear someone described as "He's a rum bugger", without any implication of sexual orientation.  You won't hear it in polite company though.\n\nBloody is a fits-anywhere mild expletive.  It derives from the original expression "By Our Lady" (i.e. swearing by the virgin Mary), but I don't think a lot of people are really aware of that today.  It can be inserted more or less anywhere in a sentence that f***ing might be, but isn't anywhere near as unacceptable.  Again, not really for use in polite society though.