scurvey

Lock a baffle on yer pie-hole, ye scurvy scalawag, ye scurvey dog!

It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day again! 2009

My children have been eating so many Happy Meals I worry that their teeth will fall out from scurvey.

baggyk: Choosing Happiness from the Pit of Home Renovations baggyk 2009

My children have been eating so many Happy Meals I worry that their teeth will fall out from scurvey.

Choosing Happiness from the Pit of Home Renovations baggyk 2009

Yet Amundsen observed that these people were healthy and strong, bore children, had plenty to eat, did not have frostbite or scurvey like the sailors did.

Nothing Has Changed 2006

Will my daughter be forced to walk the plank by these scurvey denizens of the skull and crossbones?

My latest housing co-op newsletter: The special "Pirates of Savo Island" issue 2007

So ye scurvey dogs, better not give the Captain no backtalk or it'll be time to walk the plank.

Archive 2005-12-01 hyperdave 2005

Here's a typical type of advert, placed at the end of a 1678 murder pamphlet: "Dr. Bromfield's pills against the scurvey, and all other diseases, are to be sold by Thomas Hancox bookseller in Hereford."

languagehat.com: BRATTICING/BARTIZAN. 2005

So ye scurvey dogs, better not give the Captain no backtalk or it'll be time to walk the plank.

Shiver me timbers matey! hyperdave 2005

Then when they show you their elbows, say "Ewww ... you have scurvey."

unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2001

As early as 1631, one Nicholas Knapp was fined and whipped for pretending "to cure the scurvey by a water of noe worth nor value which he sold att a very deare rate."

Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881