[redhead]

"Very sad. Beautiful ship."

Yes, very sad. The first ship model I built was of the Cutty Sark (means "Petticoat". Proably referred to the bow wave she threw up as she sliced through the water. She was one fast vessel.)

[shhrubbery!]

Cutty Sark (means "Petticoat"

You could be right, but I think the meaning is closer to "short shirt."

The root word -sark or -serk comes from the Scandinavian/North Germanic invaders of Britain. (IIRC "serk" is still the word for shirt in modern Swedish.)

The word "ber-serk" means un-shirted, or "to fight without one's shirt." Some Viking warriors would strip off their shirts just before battle to show their ferocity and freak out their enemies. Thus they were called "berserkers."

< /etymological ruminations >

[Fabozz]

The name is from a Robert Burns poem about a man who sees a witch dressed in a too-short nightdress ("cutty" = Scots for short, "sark" = Scots for shirt). He flees and she chases him; he gets away, but not before she rips off his horse's tail. The Cutty Sark's figurehead depicts this witch and holds a tail of horse hairs.

[Cogadh na Sith]

means "Petticoat".

Nah. It's Scotch for "short shirt".