Fancy-dress facist!Extravagant dictator.
Fancy-dress Fatima!Fatima is a common name in Muslim countries: the daughter of Mohammed (SAW).
Fancy-dress freebooters!Flashy plunderer.
Fat-faces!...
Filibuster!A freebooter, living by looting and plunder.
Flaming Jack-in-a-box!Someone who is usually still, but suddenly moves violently.
Fraud!...
Freshwater swabs!A swab is a mop used to scrub the deck of a ship.
Fuzzy-wuzzy!Anything small and covered with soft fur or hair. (Somewhat affectionate... strange.)
Gallows-fodder!People for who gallows exist.
Gang of thieves!...
Gangsters!...
Gherkin! (sea- !)Plant yielding fruit like a small cucumber, used mainly for pickling.
Gibbering ghost!...
Gobbledygook!Complex and technical junk talk.
Gogglers!???
Goosecaps!Can't say...
Gyroscope!A wheel spinning is a way that the wheel's plane can vary, but it doesn't, because of the Earth's inertia. Useful in navigation.
Harlequin!A buffoon wearing bright colors.
Heretic!One who advocates heresy.
Highwayman!A horse-mounted robber.
Hi-jackers!...
Hooligans!A rowdy youth, usually in a gang.
Hydrocarbon!A large class of organic compounds consisting only of hydrogen and carbon.
Iconoclast!A person who destroys religious images, or opposes their use in worship.
Interplanetary pirate!...
Invertebrate!Any organism without a backbone.
Jackanapes!A conceited, impertinent young man or boy.
Jack pudding!...
Jellied-eel!An eel jellied for storage.
Jellyfish!You know...
Kleptomaniacs!A person with a neurotic urge to steal purposelessly.
Ku-Klux-Klan!In Haddock's sense: anyone who wears the traditional robe and mask of the Ku-Klux-Klan white supremacists.
Liquorice! (now, licorice)A black extract of a dry root, used for flavoring tobacco.
dt>Logarithm!To diminutize something very large. Technically, a mathematical statement: if a=bn, n is the logarithm of a to b.
Lubbery scum!A lubber is a clumsy, unskilled sailor wannabe.
Mameluke!From the Muslim sultanate which virtually ruled Egypt. Originally composed of mostly converted Turkish or Circassian slaves.
Meddlesome cabin-boy!...
Megalomaniac!An insane person with delusions of grandeur.
Miserable earthworms!...
Miserable molecule of mildew!Mildew is the white fuzzy growth fungus makes on a plant or other organic matter.
Monopolizers!...
Moth-eaten marmot!A relative of the woodchuck, thick-bodied short-legged rodents.
Moujik!A Russian peasant.
Mountebanks!A quack who sells "miracle cure" medicines, exploiting public ignorance.
Mule!...
Nanny-goat!An old, often troublesome, female goat.
Nincompoop!...
Nitwits!...
Nitwitted nine-pins!A bottle-shaped pin (usually used in bowling), and dim-witted.
Numbskulls!...
Nyctalop!Someone or something with abnormally poor vision in dim light.
Olympic Athlete!...
Ophicleides!An obsolete musical instrument, like the keyed-bugle.
Orangoutang!(now orangutan) A great ape native to the forests on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra.
Ostrogoth!Goths who settled in Ukraine, and were eventually conquered by the Huns.
Pachyrhizus!I'm not sure, but "pachi" is Greek for "thick," and "rhiza" is "root"...
Paranoiac!A paranoid person.
Parasites!Anyone who lives off the earnings of others.
Patagonian!An inhabitant of Patagonia, the southern region of South America.
Pestilential pachyderm!"Pestilential" is a deadly epidemic disease. A pachyderm is a rhino, an elephant... any hoofed mammal with thick skin.
Phylloxera!A genus of destructive plant lice.
Picaroon!A rogue or a pirate; or his ship.
Pickled herrings!...
Pig-headed...(The Captain never managed to finish this curse. A pity... Read about it in "The Crab with Golden Claws.")
Pirates!Too simple...
Pockmark!A pit-like scar, on skin, ground, etc.
Politician!...
Polygraphs!A lie-detector, use of which is still controversial.
Polynesian!From Polynesia, where people are either fishermen, or coconut farmers.
Poor loon!A loon is someone very silly, especially after he's done something very silly.
Prize purple jellyfishes!Someone wihtout self-reliance and firmness of will. Technically, jellyfishes are marine coelenterates, consisting of a transcluscent umbrelly, and sometimes deadly tentacles attached.
Profiteer!Someone who makes exhorbitant profits, espcially in times of scarcity.
Psychopath!Insane person.
Purple profiteering jellyfish!Profiteering is demanding outrageous profits.
Pyrographers!Pyrography is the art of making pictures with fire or heat.
Rats!...
Road-hogs!A reckless driver.
Rubberneck!An indefatigable site-seer.
Ruffian!...
Saucy tramp!...
San Theolodite!Here, the Captain is referring to the Tapiocan politician of the country of San Theodores.
Savages!...
Scorpion!...
Sea-lice!Lice found on the sea.
Shipwreckers!...
Slave-trader!The words say it all.
Slubberdegullions!God knows...
Snake!...
Spitfire!Anyone, but especially a female, who gets angry very quickly.
Steamroller!A steam-driven vehicle with a heavy roller attached, used to even roads, etc.
Swine!...
Sycophant!Someone who flatters others for self-gain.
Technocrat!Someone who governs by technical details.
Terrapin!An edible fresh-water turtle.
Toads!...
Toffee-noses!I dunno...
Torturers!...
Two-timing troglodyte!Anyone (prehistoric or otherwise) who lives in or above a cave.
Traitors!...
Tramps!...
Tribe of savages!...
Turncoats!Renegades.
Twister!(in the Captain's sense) someone who distorts things.
Vagabonds!Wandering, without a fixed home.
Vampires!Mythical creatures which awake only at night to feed on the blood of humans.
Vandal!A barbarian people who attacked the Roman Empire. Now, it's someone who destroys for fun.
Vegetarian!Sublime...
Vermicellis!
Very thin threads of dried pasta, often made in soups.
Villain!...
Visigoths!A Western Danubian division of the Goths who, in 410, invaded Italy and sacked Rome.
Vivisectionists!Someone who dissects animals while they are still alive.
Vulture!Large birds of prey, which often feeds on carrion.
Wildcat!Any of the big cats in the wild.
Woodlice!Lice existing on wood.
Wreckers!...
Zapotecs!No idea...
Note: these words of art are contrived by a famous ancestor of Captain Haddock, Sir Francis Haddock. He's in "The Secret of the Unicorn."
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