My understanding of “shiver me timbers” was the pirate exclaiming his nervousness and that his wooden peg leg (his timbers) was quaking, thereby producing a “shiver me timbers” result.
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Joan Pillsbury:
January 15th, 2010 at 7:22 pm
My understanding of “shiver me timbers” was the pirate exclaiming his nervousness and that his wooden peg leg (his timbers) was quaking, thereby producing a “shiver me timbers” result.