[Public-List] Butter end

[Dominic Amann]

Ah - suddenly the Sex Pistols "friggin in the riggin" lyrics make more
sense: "the ship's boss was a penis..."

On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 at 15:40, Stephen Gwyn via Public-List <
public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:

> My bitter end is tied to a chunk of wood too big to fit up the hawsepipe.
>
> BTW "bitter end" has nothing to do with the bitterness associated with
> seeing disappear over the side. It's the end that goes around the bitts AKA
> the Samson post.
>
> In French, it's the almost the same word: bitte. Which is also a slang term
> for penis. Possibly because the Samson post on the boss of boats from the
> south of France are quite phallic:
>
> https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointu_%28embarcation%29?wprov=sfla1
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