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Other quizzes “test” the knowledge of the reader's knowledge of gay, black, or carnival slang, of the origins of certain words ( topaz matches up with “Greek for `conjecture' because they could only guess where it came from”), some of tautological clichés (like beck and --), others of nautical jargon, euphemisms, numerical allusions, Yankee dialect, and so forth.
Farmer & Henley, Slang and its Analogues , defines the term as “a soldier's bastard,” although the nautical connotation occurs in a reference to The Sailor's Wordbook , which refers to women who sailed with their husbands, not to loose women.
One significant element of airline language, including many of its archaisms, derives from the nautical terminology that the pioneers of air travel appropriated--not unnaturally, given the obvious parallels between the two modes of transportation (fragile means of conveyance, built to negotiate a boundless, often turbulent medium of fluid or gas).
The first (to which most of us know the answer, I suppose, but that makes it no less legitimate) is, What is the nautical term for the left and right sides of a boat?
Block Islanders, furthermore, have tossed their share of nautical expressions into the stream of Rhode Island consciousness, as when Harry Allen, ancient seafarer, reported on his visit to the doctor.