Reverse Dictionary: SAILOR

ADJECTIVES
– ALTUMAL of or relating to sailors or the sea; nautical …1711 sl. rare & arch.
– BLUEY-WOOZY infatuated with sailors …Bk1947 Amer. sl.
– FLEET-FOOTED infatuated with sailors …Bk1947 Amer. sl.
– TAR-BREECH wearing tarry breeches, said of a sailor …1582 obs.
– TARPAULIAN pert. to a sailor …1719 obs.
– TARPAULIN pert to a mariner or sailor; sea-bred …1647 rare
– TARRISH belonging to sailors; nautical …1841 rare

NOUNS
– ALTUMAL sailor’s slang, nautical jargon … E18 sl.
– BEACON a sailor’s home …World War II Amer. sl.
– BINNACLE LIST Bk1975 US Navy usage – a list of sailors too sick to report for duty
– DAVY the spirit of the sea; the sailors’ devil; the demon of the sea; hence the bottom of the sea; a watery grave; death in general …1790 nautical sl.
– RAIL SQUAD seasick sailors …Bk1913-17 Amer. navy sl.
– TARHOOD the general body of sailors; sailors collectively …1749 nonce word

NOUNS, PERSON
– ABLE SEAMAN a sailor capable of performing all duties …1661
– ADMIRAL an ironic term for a sailor …Bk1984 services usage
– ANCHOR-CLANKER a deck-hand; hence, a sailor …1952 Amer. sl.
– ANCHORHEAD a sailor; used derisively …1968 US military sl.
– BARBER’S CLERK an irresponsible sailor who is overparticular about his appearance; a fop; one who spends much time in barber’s shops …1835 US nautical sl.
– BARNACLE a former merchant sailor, still ‘stuck to’ his old waterfront haunts …1945 US sl.
– BATHTUB SAILOR a coast guardsman or land-based sailor …1944 US Navy sl.
– BAT-SWAIN an Anglo-Saxon expression for boatswain; a sailor …Bk1855 obs.
– BAYMAN 1723 US – a sailor on a ship from the Bay of Honduras
– BEACH COMBER a sailor on shore leave …World War II Amer. sl.
– BEACHMASTER a sailor very fond of women …World War II Amer. sl.
– BEN BLOCK a nickname for a sailor …Bk1904
– BLUE a sailor in the navy …1806 rare
– BLUE JACKET a sailor in the navy; esp. a seaman as distinguished from a marine …1776
– BOY IN BLUE a sailor …World War II Amer. sl.
– CHAPLAIN’S MATE a sailor of pronounced religious tendencies …Bk1913-17 Amer. navy sl.
– CHICKEN a young sailor or soldier; a novice …1888 Amer. dial.
– CHICKEN OF THE SEA a young sailor …1970s US homosexual sl.
– CHINAMAN a sailor who works in a ship’s laundry …20C US sl.
– COXSWAIN OF THE PLOW a sailor recently enlisted …Bk1913-17 Amer. navy sl.
– CRUMB a dirty sailor …Bk1913-17 Amer. navy sl.
– CRUMB GOB a dirty sailor …World War II Amer. sl.
– DECK APE a sailor whose duties keep him on the deck …World War II Amer. sl.
– DILBERT a sailor who is a foul-up or a screwball …World War II Amer. sl.
– DITCH HOG a canal or freshwater sailor …1961 US nautical usage
– DIXIE CUP an enlisted sailor in the U.S. Navy …1968 US military sl.
– DRY SEAMAN a sailor …US Civil War usage
– FARMER a sailor who has no duties at the wheel or on watch during the night …1886 sl.
– FLATFOOT a sailor …Bk1913-17 Amer. navy sl.
– FORECASTLE LAWYER a sailor conversant with the navy regulations …Bk1913-17 Amer. navy sl.
– FOWL a troublesome or undisciplined sailor …1937 naval sl.
– GALIONGEE a Turkish sailor …1813
– GALLIOT a sailor or rower on board a galley, whether slave or free …1506 obs.
– GANGWAY MAN a sailor who is punished at the gangway …1779 obs. rare
– GARB a sailor …1917 US sl.
– GARBY a sailor …1917 US sl.
– GEDUNK SAILOR a soft, inexperienced sailor; used derisively …1982 US Navy sl.
– GEEP a sailor who jumps ship in order to work for higher pay as a longshoreman …Bk1975 Amer. longshoremen’s sl.
– GENERAL CRAPAUD a sailor’s name for a Frenchman, one whom he thinks would be a better sailor if he would but talk English instead of French …Bk1867 nautical usage
– GENTLEMAN IN BLUE a person in blue uniform, esp. a policeman, a sailor, or a Union soldier in the American Civil War …1847
– GENTLEMAN OF THE JACKET a sailor …Bk1920
– GEORDIE a sailor from Tyneside or a neighbouring region of north-east England; esp. a member of the crew of a collier ship …1836 nautical sl.
– GOB an American sailor or ordinary seaman …1915 sl,. orig. US
– GOBBY an American sailor; a coastguard …1890 sl.
– GOBSHITE a bluejacket; an enlisted sailor below the rank of chief petty officer …Bk1913-17 Amer. navy sl.
– GREEN MAN an inexperienced sailor on a whaling vessel obs.
– HAYMAKER a term of contempt applied to sailors, a ‘land-lubber’ …1900 Eng. dial.
– HOWKER a sailor with two or more sweethearts …US Civil War usage
– JACK a sailor (used as a proper or common noun) …1659
– JACK ASHORE a ‘larky’ rather tipsy sailor …B1909 lower class colloq.
– JACKEY;  JACKIE;  JACKY a sailor …1826 colloq.
– JACK IN THE WATER a sailor …1861 Eng. dial.
– JACK-NASTY-FACE a common sailor; a cook’s mate …Bk1852 nautical usage 
– JACKSHITE an enlisted sailor below the rank of chief petty officer …Bk1913-17 Amer. navy sl.
– JACK-TAR a sailor …1781 sl.
– JEMMY DUCKS a sailor who had charge of the livestock carried on merchant ships to serve as food on long voyages …1849 nautical sl. obs.
– JIMMY DUCKS;  JIMMY DUX a sailor who had charge of the livestock carried on merchant ships to serve as food on long voyages …1849 nautical sl. obs.
– JOCK a Scottish or (formerly) northern English sailor; a Scottish soldier; a form of address to a Scotsman …L18 sl.
– LADY a sailor in charge of maintaining the gunroom …1711 nautical sl.
– LADY OF THE GUNROOM a sailor in charge of maintaining the gunroom …1837 nautical sl.
– LAGGER a sailor …1812 sl. 
– LAMPS a nickname for a sailor responsible for looking after the lamps on board ship …1866 naval sl.
– LASCAR an East Indian sailor …1625
– LASCAREE  an East Indian sailor …1712 obs.
– LIBERTY HOG a sailor or marine who is eager to go on shore leave …1992 Amer. sl.
– LIBERTY HOUND a sailor or marine who is eager to go on shore leave …1939 Amer. sl.
– LIMEJUICER a British sailor …L19 jocular usage, mildly derogatory
– LIMEY a British sailor …20C colloq., mildly derogatory
– MAC a sailor …World War II Amer. sl. 
– MARINAL a mariner, a sailor …a1300-1400 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– MARINE a sailor, a mariner …c1575 obs.
– MATELOT a sailor …1903 sl., chiefly Brit.
– MATLO;  MATLOW a sailor …1903 sl., chiefly Brit.
– MEN IN BLUE, THE n. sailors …1857
– NAVIGANT a navigator, a sailor, a voyager …1527 obs. rare
– NAVY CAKE a homosexual sailor …1970s US homosexual sl.
– NEPTUNIST a navigator; a seaman; a sailor; a nautical person …1593 obs. rare
– OLD SALT a sailor, esp. an experienced sailor …1840
– PACKET RAT a sailor; spec. one who specialized in crossing the Atlantic …1887 hist., derogatory
– PADDYWESTER an incompetent, worthless, or destitute sailor or landsman masquerading as a seaman …1892 nautical sl.
– PEGGY a sailor assigned to menial tasks; a mess-steward …1902 naval sl.
– POLITICIAN a sailor having a soft job, such as compartment cleaner, storeroom keeper, etc. …World War I Amer. sl.
– POLLYWOG  1925 nautical sl. – a sailor who is crossing the equator for the first time
– RAGGIE;  RAGGY a young sailor; an old tar’s protege; hence, a particular friend …L19 Royal Navy usage
– ROPE-GRIPPER a nickname for a sailor …1846 Sc.
– SCALY FISH an honest, rough, blunt sailor …L18 sl.
– SAILORESS a female sailor …1890
– SAILOR-MAN in uneducated and jocular use: a sailor, a seaman, a mariner …1790
– SAILOR QUEEN a homosexual sailor …Bk1972 homosexual sl. 
– SAILSMAN a sailor; also one who manages a sailing-boat …c1601
– SALT a sailor, esp. an old and experienced sailor …1840
– SALT WATER the sea; hence a jocular form of address to a sailor …1839
– SARDINE a sailor …Bk1891 Amer. sl.
– SCALY FISH an honest, rough, blunt sailor …1796 nautical sl. 
– SEAFOOD a sailor considered as a sexual object by a homosexual male …M20 US homosexual sl.
– SHELLBACK a hardened or experienced sailor; an old sailor …1853 jocular
– SINBAD an old sailor …c1860 nautical sl.
– SKULKER a soldier who, by feigned sickness or other pretenses, evades his duty; a sailor keeps below in time of danger …1785
– SO-CALLED SALT a dry-land sailor …World War I Amer. sl.
– SPLICER a sailor …1910s sl.
– SWAB a sailor …19C sl.
– SWABBY in the Navy or Coast Guard, a sailor …sl.
– TADPOLE a sailor who is engaged in basic underwater demolition or SEAL (Sea-Air-Land) training …Bk1984 US Navy 
– TALL WATER SAILOR one who has often crossed the ocean …Bk1913-17 Amer. navy sl.
– TAR a sailor …1676 sl.
– TARBARREL a sailor …Bk1903 sl.
– TAR-BREECH a term of contempt applied to a sailor …1582 obs.
– TAR-JACKET a sailor …1698 UK sl.
– TAR-LUBBER a term of contempt for a sailor …1610
– TARPAULIAN a sailor …a1656 obs.
– TARPAULIN a nickname for a mariner or sailor, esp. a common sailor …1647 rare or arch.
– TAR-POT a sailor …1641 humorous
– TARRY BRECKS a sailor …1837 sl.
– TARRY-BREEKS a sailor …1721 Sc.
– TARRY BRITCHES a sailor …1931 Sc. 
– TARRY-JACKET a humorous nickname for a sailor …1822
– TARRY-JOHN a humorous nickname for a sailor …1888

NOUNS, PERSON, OTHER
1940 ► SEA GULL a girl or a woman who follows the naval fleet or who follows a particular sailor; this includes sailors’ wives → World War II US naval sl.

PHRASES
1870 ► BEER, BUM, AND BACCA the reputed pleasures of a sailor’s life
1910 ► RUM, BUM, AND BACCA the reputed pleasures of a sailor’s life

VERBS
1860 ► FOLLOW THE SEA to pursue the calling of a sailor → US Civil War usage
1894 ► GO BY WATER to follow the sea as a calling; to be a sailor → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1909 ► SWALLOW THE ANCHOR of a sailor: to give up seafaring life → Amer. nautical sl.