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definition

jib-booms and bobstays! exclamation

Goodness me!

Origin

Characteristic of Nancy Blackett, captain of Amazon, in Arthur Ransome’s Swallows & Amazons series of adventure stories

Collector

Naomi – 1970s
Naomi Iliff (King) – owner

Notes

I probably learned the expression before N, but it was she who adopted the phrase.
—M

A jib-boom is a spar that lies outboard of a bowsprit in order to accommodate more headsails, and a bobstay is a rope of chain that braces the bowsprit and jib-boom to the vessel’s cutwater

Submitted: 24/10/2026 by Mark

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