Why do they call the bottom of the sea "Davy Jones Locker"?
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This same Davy Jones, according to the mythology of sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is often seen in various shapes, perching among the rigging on the eve of hurricanes, ship-wrecks, and other disasters to which sea-faring life is exposed, warning the devoted wretch of death and woe.
He is described as having saucer eyes, three rows of teeth, horns, a tail, and blue smoke coming from his nostrils.
The term appears to have been common among sailors, as the name Davy Jones appears often in popular nautical literature.
As is common with slang, the exact origin of "Davy Jones" is hard to discover. These explanations have been proposed:
A pub owner named David Jones who used to incapacitate helpless drinkers in his ale locker, and send them off aboard ships.
Duffer Jones, a notoriously myopic sailor who often found himself overboard.
Davy comes from Duffy, a West Indian term for ghost, or from Saint David, also known as Dewi, the patron saint of Wales, while Jones comes from the prophet Jonah.
A euphemism for a "Devil Jonah"; Jonah being a term referring to any bad luck on the ocean.
David Jones, a pirate on the Indian Ocean in the 1630s. - Jan Rogoziński, The Wordsworth Dictionary of Pirates, Ware, Hertfordshire, 1997
Only the first theory explains the locker. The name may have originated in Wales, where David Jones is a common name.
Did you watched "Pirates of the Carribean"?
i think it has something to do with a pirate ship going down and the captian was named davy jones.its something to do with a ship wrecking or something.
Davy Jones was an old Navy dude. Go to the Naval Academy website in Annapolis to find more.
the bottom of the sea is called sea level
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Davy Jones' Locker is an idiom for the bottom of the sea — the resting place of drowned seamen. It is used as a euphemism for death at sea (e.g. to be "sent to Davy Jones' Locker"); Davy Jones is a nickname (used primarily by sailors) for what would be the devil of the seas.
Origin
The earliest known reference to Davy Jones occurs in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett, published in 1751:
This same Davy Jones, according to the mythology of sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is often seen in various shapes, perching among the rigging on the eve of hurricanes, ship-wrecks, and other disasters to which sea-faring life is exposed, warning the devoted wretch of death and woe.
He is described as having saucer eyes, three rows of teeth, horns, a tail, and blue smoke coming from his nostrils.
The term appears to have been common among sailors, as the name Davy Jones appears often in popular nautical literature.
As is common with slang, the exact origin of "Davy Jones" is hard to discover. These explanations have been proposed:
A pub owner named David Jones who used to incapacitate helpless drinkers in his ale locker, and send them off aboard ships.
Duffer Jones, a notoriously myopic sailor who often found himself overboard.
Davy comes from Duffy, a West Indian term for ghost, or from Saint David, also known as Dewi, the patron saint of Wales, while Jones comes from the prophet Jonah.
A euphemism for a "Devil Jonah"; Jonah being a term referring to any bad luck on the ocean.
David Jones, a pirate on the Indian Ocean in the 1630s. - Jan Rogoziński, The Wordsworth Dictionary of Pirates, Ware, Hertfordshire, 1997
Only the first theory explains the locker. The name may have originated in Wales, where David Jones is a common name.
Davy Jones is a sailors name for a devil of the sea, the term locker probably refers to the sea not giving up its secrets or being lost to the sea.
Apparntly Davy Jones is an evil water spirt.
He is first mentioned in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, by by Tobias Smollett, published in 1751.
Their are many theories as to the orign of the legend. One been that a pub owner, called Davy Jones would kill sailors.
Davy Jones' Locker
Davy Jones' Locker is an idiom for the bottom of the sea — the resting place of drowned seamen.
The phrase goes back at least two centuries, since the first clear reference comes from Tobias Smollett, who wrote in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle in 1751 that:
This same Davy Jones, according to the mythology of sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is often seen in various shapes, perching among the rigging on the eve of hurricanes, ship-wrecks, and other disasters to which sea-faring life is exposed, warning the devoted wretch of death and woe.
So, his locker is the bottom of the sea, the ocean?s depths.http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-dav1.
The phrase Davy Jones appears often in popular nautical literature. There is no reason not to assume the term was common among sailors for many years.
Variations
Davy Jones is sailor slang for the evil spirits of the ocean.
Davy's Locker or Davy Jones' Locker is the deep ocean's bottom.
To be sent to Davy's Locker is to perish at sea.
To send someone to Davy Jones is to kill them.
To see you to Davy Jones is a threat to kill someone.
To be in Davy's Grip mean to be close to death or frightened.
To have the Davies or the Joneseys means to be frightened
To awaken Davy or awaken Davy Jones is to cause a storm
Origin
David Jones is a common name in Wales, but as with slangs is common, the origin of the phrase as a spirit of the deep is hard to discover. These explanations have been expressed:
A pub owner named David Jones who used to incapacitate hapless drinkers in his ale locker, and send them off aboard ships.
Davy comes from Duffy (West Indian term for ghost) or St. David (patron saint of Welsh sailors) and Jones from prophet Jonah.
Duffer Jones, a notoriously myopic sailor who often found himself overboard.
I think there is a legend about this: the person drowned at sea.don't quote me though! There's probably data about it on the web somewhere!
He's one of the charterers on sponge bob square pants show.
cos ull never know what ull find
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