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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.
The Sailor's Wordbook , published more than a hundred years ago, offers this explanation: “ `Son of a gun' is an epithet conveying contempt in a slight degree and was originally applied to boys born afloat.
Frequency information on the language, of great usefulness to lexicographers and other linguists is sorely lacking: a study by Thorndike and Lorge in the 1930s yielded the Teacher's Wordbook of 30,000 Words , but that had outlived its accuracy and usefulness by the mid 1940s.