butter-backed

Updated: May 12, 2025

Now, 'e says, 'you hold the false and felonious reputation of bein' the smartest ship in the Service. Pigsties, 'e says, is plane trigonometry alongside our present disgustin' state. Efface the effects of this indecent orgy, he says. 'Jump, you lop-eared, flat-footed, butter-backed Amalekites! Dig out, you briny-eyed beggars!" "Do captains talk like that in the Navy, Mr. Pyecroft?" I asked.

Rudyard Kipling - Traffics and Discoveries