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Adrian Leach | What's a 'Salty Dog?' (70* d) | RE: What's a 'Salty Dog?' | 09 Nov 99 |
As colourful and far more entertaining as the other suggestions are, I am afraid a Salty Dog, in all the contexts I have heard or read it in, is nothing more than a sailor(more often "Salty Sea Dog"). See RLS' Treasure Island. UNLESS as a youth I totally misconstrued Long John Silver's meaning when he said he was going below decks to slap a Salty Dog ..... which rather changes the flavour of the book. |