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chained_bear commented on the word scrovies
"'...for you are to observe that in a crew such as this a great many scrovies are necessarily swept in, froward dirty disreputable rough good-for-nothing disorderly ragabashes and raparees to begin with, and sometimes for ever.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 91
February 13, 2008