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"Shiver me timbers" (or "shiver my timbers" in Standard English) is an exclamation in the form of a mock oath usually attributed to the speech of pirates in works of fiction. It is employed as a literary device by authors to express shock, surprise, or annoyance.
Shiver Me Timbers, a song on a 1974 studio album by Tom Waits; See also. Tom and Jerry: Shiver Me Whiskers, a 2006 American direct-to-video animated film
Bold textSuggestion: the reference to splintering in English as an explanation of "shiver" confirms my suspicion that this old word in English was derived from the Hebrew word "shavar" which means "break", but can also mean splinter when referring to wood. It is interesting, that one can look at any language on the face of the earth and find ...
Obviously, timbers refer to the wooden ribs in a ship's frame (even today). The phrase 'shiver(ing) me(my) timbers' was actually proper english at the time and would not only have been employed by English pirates and/or their victims, but in regular naval warfare (among english-speaking participants).--K10wnsta 22:27, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
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Shiver me Timbers I'm a sailin' away The young Noodles reads Martin Eden in the Sergio Leone film Once Upon a Time in America (1984). In La Belle Époque (2019), Martin Eden is the book that Victor Drumond had been reading 45 years earlier in his 1974 hotel room.
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