Reso Slang, Word, Phrases and Sayings.
Alpha
A's&A's
Adqual
Ad rift
AFO
Aggie Weston's
Airy Fairy
All about
All boots and gaiters
All for it
All hands in
Ambeet/Amtoot
Amp tramp
Anchor-faced
Andrew (The)
Arse bandit
Arseholed
Arse over tit
At the rush
Reso Slang Words, Phrases and Sayings
Alterations and additions
Additional qualifications
Late for work or duty
Admiralty Fleet Orders - see DCI
Royal Sailors Rests
Derogatory name for Fleet Air Arm personnel
Astute
Parade or Gunnery Instructor
Enthusiastic (sometimes ironically)
Everybody
Nickname for cheapest Maltese wine
Electrical rating
Enthusiastic about the Royal Navy (see pusser)
The Royal Navy
Homosexual
Very drunk
Head over heels
As fast as possible
Bravo
Babies heads
Back Aftie
Bag shanty
Banyan
Baron strangler
Barrack stanchion
Bash
Tinned Steak and Kidney pudding
Propulsion Department on Polaris Submarine
A brothel
Beach party where lots of beer is drunk
Taking advantage of someone well off
Sailor who seems to be able to avoid sea drafts
Casual Naval acquaintance
Reso Slang, Word, Phrases and Sayings.
Bashing the Bishop
Basket weaving course
Beef/Beefer
Beef Screen
Beer, big eats, bag off back on board
Beer tokens
Belay
Bellfin
Biffins bridge
Bible basher
Big eats
BITS
Black catter
Black gang
Black ham
Blank week
Blow-through
Blue
Bluebell
Blue Card man
Blue Liners
Bluey
Blushing & farting
Boats
Bo'ness beastie
Bombay Runner
Bootneck
Both watches
Brain Damage
Bramah
Brass hat
Bravo Zulu (BZ)
Brightwork
Masturbating
Spell in RVH Netley (ex mental hospital near Southampton)
Homosexual
Ship's butcher's ready use store
Jack's ideal run ashore
Money
Stop or cease doing something
Stinking/smelly
Connecting tissue between vulva and anus or the shelf between the "playpen" and the "gash
chute"
Regular church attender "in extremis"
Pay week meal shore
Beans in tomato sauce (see Herrings in)
Someone who tops your story
Stokers
Mombasa ladies of the night
Week in which no payday
Sexual intercourse
See Bash above
Metal polish
Special dutyman not required for standard duty watch
Navy issue cigarettes
Free airmail letter from operational area e.g. Iraq
Shy, embarrassed
Submarines
Slang name for ladies of that town who used to frequent the Flotilla Club at South
Queensferry
Large cockroach
Royal Marine
Muster of hands at the start of the working day
Pint Newcastle Brown with a Wee Heavy added
Success attained with extreme difficulty
Commanders & above cap
Well done!
Any brass fitting that has to be polished e.g. Ship's Bell
Reso Slang, Word, Phrases and Sayings.
Bristol fashion
Brothel creepers
Brownhatter or Brownjob
Bubbly
Bucket of shit
Buffer
Buffing up
Buggery board
Bugis Street
Bunch of bastards
Bunting Tosser
Burberry (Rub of)
Burma Doo
Burma Road/Way
Button
Button boy
Buzz
Neat and tidy as in all shipshape and Bristol fashion
Soft soled shoes
Homosexual
Pusser's rum – grog – tot
Friendly greeting as in Me old bucket o' shit how's it goin
Chief Bosun's Mate
Polishing brightwork (see above)
Metal sheet separating two bunks (usually with ventilation holes)
Singapore Red Light area famous for Kytais (re-vamped 1985 now trendy shopping
centre/tourist attraction )
Length of tangled rope that will take some undoing
Tactical signals branch rating
Lend me your raincoat
Bermuda
Below decks passageway forward to aft
Wooden cap on top of a mast - see Truck
Junior seaman on top of the mast (HMS Ganges)
Rumour
Charlie
Caboosh
Cackle the fat
Cackleberry
Call the hands
Can Man
Can spanner
Canteen boat
Canteen Damager
Can't see me suit
Catch the boat up
C.D.F.
Channel night
Small work compartment, store, office, hideaway
Idle chatter
Boiled egg
Naval reveille
See Canteen Damager
Tin opener
Junior Captain – gets all the shit jobs
NAAFI Canteen Manager
Bootneck or pongo in camouflage kit
Contract a venereal disease
Commonsense. Common dog f***
Last night at sea PU before getting into base port
Reso Slang, Word, Phrases and Sayings.
Cheesy 'ammy eggy
Chinese wedding cake
Chippy
Chippy's mate
Chokka
Chop Chop
Chop one off
Chuffed
Chuffs & Puffs
Cinderella leave
Clacker
Clanky
Clear lower deck
Clear your yardarm
Clews
Close to the wind
Close up
Clubswinger
Coil one down
Cook of the Mess
Cock and arse party
Colours
Comanche Bollocks
Comic Cuts
Con
Condensing snot
Corticene
Coxn's Dog
Crabfat
Crab Air
Crabs
Crash/Crash out
Cross the bar
Crusher
CUMDAFFERS
Toast with bacon on top covered in a cheese mixture and topped with an egg
Rice pudding with currants
Shipwright
Shipwright's assistant
Upset
Get a move on. Hurry up.
Salute
Very pleased
Chiefs and Petty Officers
Leave until midnight only
Pie crust
Someone in the engineer branch
All personnel to muster
Ensure no blame will come to you if something goes wrong
Cords from which a hammock is slung (see nettles)
Living dangerously
Go to your action station/place of duty etc
Physical Training Instructor - PTI
Have a sh*t in an unusual place
Prepare meals for the mess & clean up
Officers cocktail party
Ceremonial hoisting/lowering of White Ensign
Whole Tinned Tomatoes usually served at Breakfast
Sailors confidential or promotion reports
Control of ship's steering
Snoring
Pusser's linoleum (usually red in colour)
Coxswains Office Helper (Usually an AB).
RAF personnel
Air travel courtesy of the RAF
Pubic lice, often known as “crutch crickets”
Go to bed
Die - He's crossed the bar i.e. left life's harbour
Regulating Petty Officer
Clear up messdecks and flats for evening rounds
Reso Slang, Word, Phrases and Sayings.
CSB
Courage Sparkling Bitter - strong ale brewed for HM Ships
Delta
D by P
Dabber
Dabtoe
Daddy "S"
DCI
Deckhead survey
Dhaigsa (sounds Diso)
Dhobi
Dhobi bucket
Dhobi dust
Dhobi hitch
Dhobi Rash
Dhobi Wallah
Dig in/out
Dip
Dip in/Dipped in
Dip out/Dipped out
Dip your wick
Dipshit
Ditty Box
Divisions
Dockyard jellyfish
Dockyard matey
Dockyard oyster
Dockyard run-around
Dode
Doggo
Dog Watch (in for a)
Dog Watches
Dollar bosun
Discharge by purchase (forerunner to PVR)
Seaman
Seaman
Commander in Supply Branch
Defence Council Instructions succeeded AFO's circa 1960
Sleeping
Harbour rowing boat peculiar to Malta
Wash/bath/shower
Bucket used for crashing out clean clothes
Soap powder
Unrecognisable knot which comes undone easily
Red rash caused by not rinsing clothes properly
Laundryman (normally Chinese)
Help yourself – “fill yer boots”
To fail
Strike lucky
Lose out on something
Have sexual intercourse
Stupid
Where Jack keeps his prized possessions
Formal parade or how Departments are split
Green gob of phlegm
Dockyard "worker"
Green gob of phlegm floating in water
Being messed about
More than a smidgen
Ugly, usually ungallantly of a woman
Derogatory term for a sailor who has only been in RN for a short time
1600 to 1800 First Dog. 1800 to 2000 Last Dog
Paymaster/ Supply Officer /Senior Writer Rating
Reso Slang, Word, Phrases and Sayings.
Doofer
Double breasted matelot
Draft Chit
Drafty
Draw one off
Drip
Drop test
DTS
Duff, Up the
Duff up
Dumb F**k
Dung hampers
Half smoked cigarette (do for later)
Coarse name for Wren (now female sailors)
Movement order to another ship/unit
Person/office that issues draft chits
Punch or slap
Moan, complain
Electrical version of Float Test
Dinner time session or Dartmouth Training Squadron
Pregnant
Give a hiding to
Stupid
Underpants - see keks
Echo
EPO
Ear pounding
Egg Banjo
Egyptian AFO's
Elmer
Essence
Exped
Electrical Panel Operator
Bollicking
Eggs in a long bread roll (similar to a French stick) smothered in ketchup or brown sauce.
Usually obtained East of Suez.
Pornographic books with poor spelling - see AFO
An American
Word to describe something beautiful (usually female)
Adventurous training
Foxtrot
Falls
Fang farrier
Fanny
Fanny Bowser
Fanny rat
Fast black
Fassers
Ropes for raising/lowering boats (see marry the falls)
Dentist
Container for liquids e.g. Rum Fanny
Transport from Wrennery to workplace on Naval Air Stations
Womaniser
Taxi (origin Singapore)
Faslane
Reso Slang, Word, Phrases and Sayings.
Faslane Weekend
Father Famine
Feed 'em rice
FES (pronounced Fez)
FFO
FFSBU
Fid
Fish head
Figgy duff
Flaked out
Flag 8
Flags
Flanker
Flash up (1)
Flash up (2)
Float test
Flog yer log
FOD
Four by Two (4x2)
Free gangway
Friday while
FRISP
For soft Southies who thought Faslane was on the Dark Side of the Moon.
Caterer etc or Supply Officer responsible for food
Uncaring (Tell them Anything)
Far East Station
Furnace fuel oil
For F***s sake buck up
Small marline spike or a sheaf of papers
General Service personnel (word used by Wafoos)
Suet pudding, usually with fruit
Asleep or lying in relaxed position
Women in the vicinity
Senior Rate Yeoman Signalman
Pull a fast one as in "work a flanker"
Lose your temper
Start machinery/main engines etc
Ditch something overboard or getting rid of something
Masturbate
Foreign Object Damage
As in 4x2 Plank = Stupid
Able to proceed ashore without formal inspection
Long weekend leave
F*****g repulsive ignorant Scottish pig (Rosyth Dockyard Matey)
Golf
Gannet
Gas & gaiters
Gash
Gash hand
Get your hat
Get your lagging on
Get your lagging off
G.I.
Greedy
Gunnery rating
Surplus to requirements
Spare (but normally useless) rating
In trouble and being brought to the table
Getting dressed for going ashore
Get your knickers off
Gunnery Instructor
Reso Slang, Word, Phrases and Sayings.
Gizzits
Gnats piss
Go round the buoy
Gobbler‟s gulch
Gob shite
God walloper
Goffer
Goofer
Green rub
Greenies
Grey Funnel Line
Grippo
Gronk
Gronk board
Grubber
Guard & steerage
Gulpers
Free gift of any description
Weak beer
Repeat, take a second helping
Area between stocking top and suspender belt
Loudmouth
Chaplain/Padre
Big breaking wave. Fruit flavoured soft drink
Spectator
Unjust treatment, detailing, draft etc
Electricians
The (seagoing) Royal Navy
Free treat - usually by a civilian
An ugly woman
Mess board with pictures of ugly women
Airframes and Engines mechanic
30 minute lie in for non watchkeepers working late
Very generous gesture regarding rum usually given for a big favour e.g. sub for duty. 8
gulpers = 1 tot.
Gut (The)
Guzz
Gyro failure
Strait Street, Valetta Malta (in)famous for bars/loose women (Gippo Queen, Sugars etc)
Plymouth
Staggering after having one too many
Hotel
Half a dog watch
Handsomely
Hang out of
Hard cheese
Hard shit!
Hard Tack
Harries
Harry
Short time- usually derogative about length of service
Slowly and carefully e.g. lowering a seaboat
Cohabit with a woman
Hard Luck
Bad luck
Ship's biscuit
Anything you don't know the name of
Prefix used like 'Harry Crappers' or 'Harry Skint'
Reso Slang, Word, Phrases and Sayings.
Head down
Heads
Heads (Captain of)
Hedgehog
Herrings in
Hoggin
Homeward bounders
Honk
Honk (your ring up)
Honky Fid
Hook
Hooky
Housewife
Sleep: „Get your head down‟
Toilet
Rating responsible for cleaning toilets
Oversized prickly & painful bowel motion. Exceeds babies heads (2) in discomfort
Herrings in tomato sauce (HITS)
The sea
Large, untidy stitches
Smell offensively
Be violently sick
Hong Kong
Anchor
A leading hand
Sewing kit - usually issued on joining up
India
Ickies
Ickies (2)
Irish Pendant
Any foreign currency
Radiation
Poorly secured line or hanging lanyard
Juliet
Jack
Jack Dusty
Jack me Tickler
Jackproof
Jack Strop
Jacksie
J.A.F.O.
J.A.M.T.F.
Jagos Mansion
Jan/Janner
Jaunty/Joss /Jossman
Sailor and also Union Flag
A supply rating
A know all sailor. Been there done it type.
Robust piece of equipment or kit
A bellicose rating
Anus
Just another f*****g observer
Just another mouth to feed
RN Barracks, Devonport, HMS Drake
West Country rating
Master at Arms
Reso Slang, Word, Phrases and Sayings.
J.B.
Jig-a-jig
Jimmy/Jimmy the one
Jockanese
Johore Bharu (near Singapore)
Brothel visit
First Lieutenant
Scots accent
Kilo
Keks
Kick in the bollocks
Killick
„kin „ell!
Kipper
Kit muster
Knacker crackers
Knee trembler
Knobber
Knuckle
Knuckle bosun
Kytai (sounds KyeTie)
Kye
Underpants - see dung hampers
Extreme setback
Leading hand
Abbreviated expostulation
Two faced b*****d with no guts
Formal inspection of kit
Beefy female thighs
Having sex standing up
Homosexual
Hit somebody with fist
Punchy matelot
Transvestite (He-She) see Bugis Street
Cocoa made from grated dark unsweetened chocolate
Lima
Larboard
Lash-up
Laughing gear
Lazy lob
Lead on MacDick
Lee side
Liberty Boat
Libertymen
Lifebuoy ghost
Lightweight
Original word for Port (left) side of ship
Generous hospitality also makeshift arrangements
Mouth
Partial erection
Undiscriminating fornicator (see Fanny rat)
Sheltered side
Small vessel used to take Jack ashore & return him
Jack proceeding ashore (usually at a designated time)
Sentry at aft end of ship when underway
Someone with a cushy number onboard
Reso Slang, Word, Phrases and Sayings.
Limers
Lined up
Lob on
Lower Deck lawyer
Very strong fruit drink made from Pusser's lime crystals, sugar and water
On a disciplinary charge
An erection
A Jack me Tickler always quoting rules and regulations
Mike
Mailey/mailies
Make and Mend
Make and Mend with leave or Sports
Make and Mend
Magic Stick
Maltese breaststroke
Mankey
Marry the falls
Marsovin & 7 Up
Matelot
Medical stoppage
Messdeck dodger
Mick
Mickey Duck
Mickey Mouse Killick
Middle Watch
Milestone
Missile Mary
Mogadogshit
Mombers
Muck on a truck
Muff diver
Mulct
Muscle bosun
Musical fruit
Muster
Letters from/to home usually See bluey
Afternoon off (usually given after a middle watch)
Self explanatory. (Orig. when sailors had to make own clothes and were given afternoon off
to repair them - hence make and mend)
The Majestic Ballroom in Guzz
Pulling hands towards chest as if piling up money
Filthy
Bringing the ropes together when lowering a seaboat
Lethal Maltese cocktail
Sailor
Leave/tot stopped (see catch the boat up)
Messdeck sweeper or cleaner
Hammock („sling me mick‟)
Cartoon film
Leading Hand with no Good Conduct Badges
Midnight to 0400 (4am) shift (or watch)
Extra large wave periodically encountered
Works in Missile Compartment
Mogadishu (Somalia)
Mombasa, Kenya - see Black Ham
Meals on wheels (usually for ships in refit)
Rating given to oral intercourse
Stoppage of pay (disciplinary punishment)
PTI, or body-builder rating
Baked beans or pussers peas
Gather together as a group e.g. Duty watch muster
Reso Slang, Word, Phrases and Sayings.
November
NAAFI rating
Nap hand
Nav Queen
Navy cake
Neaters
Necky
Netley
Nettles
Nigerian lager
Nix and flip flops
North-Easter
NUC1
NCOW
NOOW
Number One
Number Two/Three etc
Nutty
Nutty Bosun
No ambition and f*** all interest
Unlucky, contracting both gonorrhoea & syphilis/crabs
Works in Navigation Centre of Polaris Boat
Homosexual sailor
Unwatered rum
Got a nerve (as in more neck than a 3 badge giraffe at action stations with a make and mend
chit)
Naval nuthouse - now a housing development
The cords that make up a hammocks clews
Guinness
Jacks bathroom attire
Rating having no money on pay day - NE: not entitled
Head of Propulsion Department Polaris Submarine
Nuclear Chief of the Watch
Nuclear Officer of the Watch
First Lieutenant or Chinese Laundryman
Laundryman's assistants
Sweets
Someone with a sweet tooth
Oscar
Oggie
Old ships
Oppo
Out of watch
Out pipes
Over the wall
Papa
Cornish pasty or native of Cornwall
Old shipmate – someone previously served with
Close chum
„Getting a bit‟ with a lady – not one‟s wife/girlfriend
Stop smoking and get back to work
Spell in detention quarters
Reso Slang, Word, Phrases and Sayings.
P7R
PVR
Panic Bosun
Part of Ship (POS)
Party
Pash
Pea-doo
Pension trap
Phoo-phoo
Pierhead jump
Pig
Pinkie
Pipe
Pipe down
Pi-r squared rating
Piso
Pissed off
Piss flap
Piss poor
PJ
Plushers/plussers
Pongo
Porridge guns
Potmess
POTS
Pox doctor‟s clerk
PPO
Punkah louvre
Pusher
Pusser
Pusser's Crabfat
Pusser's Hard
Medical category - Unfit for sea
Premature Voluntary Release (see D by P)
Someone who is excitable
Place of duty or compartment/workspace you are responsible for
Sailors steady girlfriend
Girlfriend
Long service and good conduct medal (origin obscure - but possibly "Pay Due" because of the
£20 gratuity that used to be paid on award). The LS & GC was introduced on the 24th
August 1831.
Some mishap that may prevent Jack collecting his pension after his 22
Talcum powder
Draft at very short notice
RN Officer (impolite)
Aircraft radio mechanic
Bosuns whistle blown, normally precedes an order
Keep silence or "out lights" and turn in
One who can do sums, studious (derogatory)
Tight (Not for me - but for my Dhaighsa (Diso) - you British matelots are so piso).
Fed up
Buttoned flap on sailors trousers
Not very good
Poxy Jock (origin - Faslane)
Rum remaining in tub after issue made - later Queens
Army personnel
Bagpipes
Messdeck stew
Petty Officer Telegraphist
Generally lucky
Propulsion Panel Operator
Forced air ventilation (orig India)
Another term for girlfriend
Supply officer or someone very formal navy-style
Ship's side grey paint
Navy soap
Reso Slang, Word, Phrases and Sayings.
Pusser's Terrapin
Steak and kidney pie (generally the rectangular shaped ones)
Quebec
Quack
Queens
Quick burn
Quiet number
Quiet run
QT
Medical officer
Rum left over in fanny after tots issued
Rapidly and slyly smoked cigarette
Cushy job
Routine Run Ashore where nothing happened
On the quiet/unofficial
Romeo
RPO
Rabbits
Rabbit job
Racing snake
Ram it
Rattle, in the
RDP
Red devil
Red grenade
Red lead
Reggy
Re-scrub
Ring piece
Ring stinger
Roof rats
Rose cottage
Rotten
Roughers
Rounds
Reactor Panel Operator
Presents/souvenirs or something acquired on the QT
Some work done on the side
Skinny person
Get lost. I'm not doing it!
Up on a disciplinary charge
Run down period (period just before going on draft when interest wanes). As in Shep
Woolley's song "Ram it - I'm RDP")
Pusser's bike
McEwans Export tin of beer
Tinned tomatoes
Navy police
Do it again e.g. Mess Rounds not up to standard
Anus
Hot curry
Flight-deck gang
Venereal disease ward or clinic
VD - see Rose Cottage
Heavy seas
Usually an inspection of living/work spaces etc
Reso Slang, Word, Phrases and Sayings.
Royal
Royal Naval School of Dancing
Rub/rubber
Rug rat
Rum Bosun
Run ashore
Sailors name for Royal Marine – usually bootneck
Any popular hang out for Jack to observe the local talent e.g. the Paramount in Guzz in the
60's.
Loan e.g. Give us a rub of your dhobi dust/fiver 'til next payday etc
Small child
Person detailed to collect rum for the mess
Jack having a few beers
Sierra
Scab lifter
Scale
Schoolie
Scrambled egg
Scran
Scran-bag (1)
Scran-bag (2)
Screw
Scribes
Scrub round it
Scummer
Scurs
Seamong
Secure
Set
Seven beller
Seven bells of shit
Sew Sew
Shagnasty
Shake
Shakes list
Shave off!
Shit in it
Shitnicks
Medical rating
Standard punishment for an offence
Instructor Officer
Gold leaf embellishment on senior officers cap
Food
Where kit found "sculling about" was put
Untidy rating e.g. "he's dressed like a scranbag"
Ship's propellor/sex
Rating in Writer branch
Never mind, forget it
Southampton native
Sailor with beard
Affectionate term for Seaman mainly used by Clankies.
Finish work
Full beard and moustache
Leave allowed until 1130 next day
Using excessive force e.g. he knocked seven bells of shit out of him
Ship's tailor (usually Hong Kong Chinese)
Person with low moral standards (nasty person)
Wake someone up e.g. shake your watch relief
Book containing names of people requesting a shake
(1) Cry of disgust (2) Order to remove unacceptable facial hair
Shut up
Underpants
Reso Slang, Word, Phrases and Sayings.
Shit on a Raft
Shitehawk
Shiters
Shoot through
Shufti
Sin Bosun
Singapore ear
Singers
Sippers
Skate
Skidders
Skin
Skive off
Sky Pilot
Slack hammock
Slap in
Slide
Sling yer hook
Slop chit
Slop Room
Slops
Smidgen
Snapper
Snotty
Sods opera
Solid
Sparks
Spasm chasm
Spithead pheasant
Spitkid
Split-arse mechanic
Sprog
Square rig
Braised kidneys on toast
Seagull
Drunk
Fail to keep appointment or leave run ashore early
Take a look
Padre
Ear infection
Singapore
More substantial than a wet of rum. Usually given on birthdays. 4 sippers = 1 gulper
Idle loafing sod
Dubious stain on back of underpants
Young looking sailor - usually not yet shaving
Avoid work detail
Padre
Badly lashed hammock/punishment for oversleeping
Make a written request e.g. "I'm going to slap in to see some b*****d about this.
Butter (when available)
Go away! (impolite)
List of responsibilities
See (Slops) below
Clothing, tobacco, mainly cash sales
A very small quantity (origin - Chatham Dockyard Maties)
Homosexual
Midshipman
Ship's concert
Stupid
Radio Operator
Vagina
Kipper
Gashbin in messeck (originally used for spitting in - spitoon)
Female (derogatory)
Child or baby. (Old Navy. Allegedly entered in the physicians log as the acronym - SPROG Sibling Produced Recoil of Gun - when the gun was used to assist childbirth).
Junior ratings uniform
Reso Slang, Word, Phrases and Sayings.
Squeegie
Squeeze up
Squid
SRD
Stand easy
Station Card
Stamps
Stand to
Sticky greens
Stonker
Straight rush
Stroll on!
Sub
Suck back
Submariners Dhobi Dust
Swain
Sweating neaters
Switched On
Implement with a rubber strip on the end of a broom handle to clear water
Experience VD
Ahead throwing anti-submarine mortar
Maltese dark rum almost as good as Pusser's
NAAFI/Tea break
Card given to gangway staff prior to going ashore
Of no important status
Prepare for action
Drinks bought for bar girls
Erection
Roast meat and vegetables
An expression of incredulity
Stand in for duty
Talcum powder
Coxswain – senior rate of a small warship
Very anxious state
Knows his Job
Tango
Taking a Dip
Tank, The
Tanky
Teacher
Tel
Texas Strawberries
Tits
Tower
Trade, The
Traps
On watch greenie checking the state of the battery charge (using hydrometer)
Submarine escape training tank at HMS Dolphin
Coxswain's store keeper. On some boats doubled up as the senior rates messman.
Any other vessel at sea.
Officer in Command Submarine Captains Qualifying Course (see Perishers)
Telegraphist
Baked Beans
Tomatoes in tomato sauce (see Bits & Hits)
Access to conning tower/fin with upper and lower hatches
The Submarine Service
Heads i.e. Trap 1, 2 or 3, The three heads at the aft end of an O boats Control Room
Reso Slang, Word, Phrases and Sayings.
Trim
Tailor-made
Tanky
Tea and stickies
Tiddley
Tiger tops
That is all
Thickers
Thousand miler
Three badge AB
Three badge FA
Tickler
Tiddley
Tiffy
Tilley
Tinned fishes
Toggle and two
Tombola
Toothwright
Torpoint chicken
Townie
Tram smash
Trap/trapping
Trick cyclist
Truck
Turn in
Turn to
Twelve
Two six, heave
Two's up
Up the trot
Upper scuppers
Upside down head
State of buoyancy and angle of a boat. To be in neutral buoyancy and horizontal is the
desired result i.e. to catch a trim
Manufactured cigarette as opposed to hand-rolled
Rating responsible for liquid e.g. fresh water/fuel
Friendly non alcoholic hospitality
Smart
Favourite drink - Fleet Canteen Singapore
Phrase to end a pipe that starts D'ye hear there
Condensed milk
Casual shirt/top worn for a long time
Able Seaman with three Good Conduct Badges
Alternative to above (work it out)
Navy issue cigarette tobacco
Smart, as in “tiddley suit” No 1 uniform
Artificer
Dockyard utility vehicle
Sardines
Male genitalia
Bingo - Navy style
Dentist
(Built like) i.e. all prick and toenails
Shipmate with the same home town
Bacon and tinned tomato
Ashore, out looking for women
Psychiatrist
Wooden cap on top of a mast - see Button
Go to bed
Start work
Continuous service engagement of 12 years
Words spoken prior to a co-ordinated lift etc
Reserving position e.g. "two's up with that book"
Reserve Fleet
Upper deck
A bald sailor with a beard
Reso Slang, Word, Phrases and Sayings.
Victor
WEO
Wet
WT Shack
Vampires bag meal
Victualled
Weapons Engineer Officer
A drink
Communications Compartment
Used sanitary towel in a bun/bap/roll
Living on board
Whisky
Wafoo
Wanchai burberry
Warming the bell
Watch on stop on
Weed, weejie
Wet (Have a)
Wet as a scrubber
Wind yer neck in!
Windward
Winger/Wings
Wodge
Wood butcher
Wordsmith
Wrap up
Fleet Air Arm personnel
Hong Kong umbrella usually costing a dollar
Returning onboard only just in time
Continuous duty without relief
To be angry
Taste of shipmates rum/Friendly gesture
Description of a useless individual
Shut up!
Opposite of lee side
Another word for oppo
A very large quantity of anything
Carpenter or chippy
Someone with the gift of the gab
Give up doing or saying something
X-Ray
X-Factor
That unknown additional element in Jack's pay
Yankee
Yaffle
Eat greedily
Reso Slang, Word, Phrases and Sayings.
Yellow Peril
Yodel in a bucket
You-can‟t bend-it
Poached smoked haddock
Be seasick
(1) Vague reference
(2) Chips in a French stick from a chip shop in Gib
Zulu
Zeds
Zedhead
Sleep - he's piling up the zeds
Matelot that sleeps a lot
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