Davy Jones's Locker

Definition: Davy Jones's Locker

1. The bottom of a sea or ocean.

Specialty Definitions: Davy Jones's Locker

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Davy Jones's Locker He's gone to Davy Jones's locker, i.e. he is dead. Jones is a corruption of Jonah, the prophet, who was thrown into the sea. Locker, in seaman's phrase, means any receptacle for private stores; and duffy is a ghost or spirit among the West Indian negroes. So the whole phrase is, "He is gone to the place of safe keeping, where duffy Jonah was sent to." "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 seen in various shapes ... warning the devoted wretch of death and woe." - Smollett: Peregrine Pickle, xiii. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonyms within Context: Davy Jones's Locker

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Death	Pay the debt to nature, shuffle off this mortal coil, take one's last sleep; go the way of all flesh; hand in one's checks, pass in one's checks, hand in one's chips, pass in one's chips; join the greater number, join the majority; come to dust, turn to dust; cross the Stygian ferry, cross the bar; go to one's long account, go to one's last home, go to Davy Jones's locker, go to the wall; receive one's death warrant, make one's will, step out, die a natural death, go out like the snuff of a candle; come to an untimely end; catch one's death; go off the hooks, kick the bucket, buy the farm, hop the twig, turn up one's toes; die a violent death. (be killed).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

English words defined with "Davy Jones's locker": Gone to Davy Jones's Locker. (references)

Expressions: Davy Jones's Locker

Expressions using "Davy Jones's locker": go to davy jones's locker ♦ Gone to Davy Jones's Locker. Additional references.
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Modern Translations: Davy Jones's Locker

Language		Translations for "davy jones's locker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Pig Latin		avyday ones'sjay ockerlay.(various references)

Turkish		denizin dibi, denizde ölenlerin kabri. (various references)

Vietnamese		nầm m�" nơi biển cả, biển sâu. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.