Duck Duck Go is trying to bring back pirate talk and I’m here for it
And a bullycod to you too
I’m looking forward to the pirate duck
Now what’s a shanny?
a small European blenny (Blennius pholis) that is olive green with irregular dark spots and has no appendages on the head
Of course it is.
For those still wondering, a shanny/blenny is a little fish similar to a guppy, known for it’s large eyes, blunt head and inability to acquire a proper-sounding name.
A cornish name of the shanny. Allso bullycod.
…wha?
that’s so brittish it isn’t even decipherable written down!It’s a fish
It looks like DDG is using wordnik as their source for definitions.
For this word they have four definitions each with a different license:
- Formally all rights reserved but now out of copyright and in the public domain
- GPL-2 (but based on an out of copyright proprietary dictionary)
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Alll rights reserved
https://www.wordnik.com/words/bully
Of these licenses the first is the easiest to work with. It comes with the fewest restrictions and transfers the fewest responsibilities to downstream consumers.
The OP definition is available in context here:
https://archive.org/details/centurydictipt300whituoft/page/718/mode/2up
A companion; a high-spirited, dashing fellow
A-ha, found the origin of Bully Maguire.
Well, bully for you
The fuck is a blenny?!
Cute lil feeshes
A bully is a species of blenny. Well that’s very helpful.
Why did we regress, I want to go back to speaking this way. I’m tired of our cornish language!
That’s just bully.
🎶Help me Bob, I’m bully in the alley!🎶
Def #3 appears to describe a Pimp
