Our son Andy and his charming wife are expecting their second child any day now (a boy), but Andy is being a bit cagey about the name they've selected. He's given a few clues:
A Riddle:
We played a game one night that included your future grandson's full name. All I will share is the final score of the game: 164. If you figure it out, please let others have a try until the birth.
Figuring 164 would be pretty good bowling score, I guessed the the baby's name must be Brunswick.
Joyce emailed Andy these guesses:
Eric
Fredrick Charles
Settler
Catan
But all those guesses were wrong, so Andy gave us another clue:
Your proper name rule assumption is keeping you from using the right game.
So we figure the game must be Scrabble.
Based on that assumption, we've come up with this list of names that are legitimate Scrabble words. (Please feel free to offer other suggestions as comments.)
A Riddle:
We played a game one night that included your future grandson's full name. All I will share is the final score of the game: 164. If you figure it out, please let others have a try until the birth.
Figuring 164 would be pretty good bowling score, I guessed the the baby's name must be Brunswick.
Joyce emailed Andy these guesses:
Eric
Fredrick Charles
Settler
Catan
But all those guesses were wrong, so Andy gave us another clue:
Your proper name rule assumption is keeping you from using the right game.
So we figure the game must be Scrabble.
Based on that assumption, we've come up with this list of names that are legitimate Scrabble words. (Please feel free to offer other suggestions as comments.)
Al an East Indian tree
Alan a large hunting dog
Alec a herring
Argus an East Indian pheasant
Art an aesthetically pleasing arrangement
Ash to convert into ash
Baker one that bakes
Basil an aromatic herb
Ben an inner room
Benjamin benzoine
Benny an amphetamine tablet
Biff to hit
Bill to present a statement of costs to
Billy a short club
Birch to whip
Bob to move up and down
Bobby a policeman
Bolivar a monetary unit of Venezuela
Booker one that books
Boxer one that packs boxes
Brad a thin nail
Bud a undeveloped plant part
Burton a hoisting block
Buster one that breaks up something
Carl a peasant
Carter one that carts
Carver one that carves
Chad a scrap of paper
Charley a fool
Charlie a fool
Chase to pursue
Chevy to chase about
Chico a prickly shrub
Chuck to throw
Cisco a freshwater fish
Clarence a closed carriage
Clay to treat with clay
Clement merciful
Cliff a high steep face of rock
Cooper to make or mend barrels
Dagwood a large sandwich
Dale a valley
Dalton a unit of atomic mass
Davy a safety lamp
Dean a head of faculty
Dexter situated on the right
Dick to copulate with
Dickens a devil
Dirk a small knife
Don to put on
Duke a high ranking nobleman
Dusty full of dust
Earl a British nobleman
Ed education
Eddy to move against the main current
Ford to cross by wading
Frank honest and unreserved in speech
Franklin a medeival English landowner
Fritz a non-functioning state
Garvey a small scow
Gene a hereditary unit
Gilbert a unit of magnetomotive force
Glen a small valley
Graham whole wheat flour
Grant to bestow upon
Guy to ridicule
Hale healthy
Hank to fasten a sail
Hansel to give a gift to
Harper a harpist
Harry to pillage
Hector to bully
Henry a unit of inductance
Herb a flowering plant with a non-woody stem
Herby abounding in herbs
Homer to hit a home run
Jack to raise with a type of lever
Jacky a sailor
Jake all right, fine
Jay a corvine bird
Jean a durable cotton fabric
Jeroboam a wine bottle
Jerry a German soldier
Jesse to fasten straps around the legs of
Jimmy to pry open with a crowbar
Jocko a monkey
Joe a fellow
Joey a young kangaroo
John a toilet
Johnny a sleeveless hospital gown
Jordan a type of container
Joseph a woman's long cloak
Josh to tease
Kelly a bright green color
Kelvin a unit of temperature
Ken to know
Kent knew
King to reign as king (a male monarch)
Kip to sleep
Kit to equip
Kitty a kitten or cat
Kris a short sword
Lance to pierce with a lance
Lars Roman gods
Lee to shelter from the wind
Leno a style of weaving
Levy to impose or collect, as tax
Louie a lieutenant
Louis a former gold coin of France
Mac a raincoat
Manly like a man
Marc the residue after a fruit has been pressed
Marcel to make a deep soft wave in the hair
Mark to make a visible impression on
Marshall to put in proper order
Martin a small bird
Marvy marvelous
Mason to build with stone or brick
Matt to produce a dull finish on
Maxwell a unit of magnetic flux
Mel honey
Merle a blackbird
Merlin a European falcon
Mick an Irishman
Mickey a drugged drink
Mike a microphone
Miller one that mills
Milt to impgregnate with milt (fish sperm)
Milty full of milt (fish sperm)
Mo a moment
Molly a tropical fish
Morgan a unit of distance between genes
Morris an English folk dance
Morse designating a code used in telegraphy
Mort a note sounded on a hunting horn
Nelson a wrestling hold
Nestor a wise old man
Newt a small salamander
Newton a unit of force
Nick to make a shallow cut in
Norm a standard
Otto fragrant oil
Palmer a religious pilgrim
Parr a young salmon
Pat to touch lightly
Peter to diminish gradually
Pierce to cut or pass into or through
Ralph to vomit
Randy lustful
Reed to fasten with reeds (the stalks of tall grasses)
Reg a regulation
Rex a king
Rich having wealth
Rick to pile hay in stacks
Rob to take property from illegally
Robin a songbird
Rock stone
Rocky stony
Rod to provide with a rod
Roger a pirate flag
Rusty covered with rust
Sanders one that sands
Shaw to show
Shawn an early woodwind instrument
Shea an African tree
Smith a worker in metals
Sol the fifth note of diatonic scale
Sonny a small boy
Spencer a trysail
Stew to cook by boiling slowly
Sue to file suit or a boy named...
Tab to name or designate
Tad a small boy
Ted to spread for drying
Teddy a woman's undergarment
Terry an abosrbent fabric
Texas the uppermost structure on a steamboat
Thatcher one that thatches
Timothy a European grass
Toby a type of drinking mug
Tod a British unit of weight
Tom to behave like an Uncle Tom
Tommy a loaf of bread
Tony stylish
Troy a system of weights
Turner one that turns
Van a type of motor vehicle
Victor one who defeats the enemy
Wally something visually pleasing
Ward to turn aside
Warren a place where rabbits live
Watt a unit of power
Webster a weaver
Will to decide upon
Willy to willow
Wilt to become limp
Woody resembling wood
7 comments:
I like Able, but the Bible spells it Abel.
And I think some of these word verification words will work:
shusenni
and I like Brunswick. (until you pointed out the naughty nick name someone other than yourself might come up with)
I am glad that you have narrowed it down.
Well since my new grandson's name is deemed to be Oatmeal I am thinking that I'll take any of those. I guess that this one will be Oatmeal, the next will be Buckwheat, then of course Flaxseed and finally a little girl named Pumpernickle.
Bob, I'm gonna guess Arnold Palmer. I mean, the last time I golfed, I shot a 164, so that's my frame of reference.
If it would have been 176 I would have guess my pianos that I play on and his name would be Steinway. HUM.....164 or....Afd. That would be 1 for A 6 for F and 4 for D.
Oh the name game. You know he's keeping the name from you so that you won't have the opportunity to make fun of it before his son is born!!
we were so off---David Mace Williamson was born on Oct. 6th.
the only way his name could be a Scrabble word is by using the nickname, Davy.
Congratulations! What an exciting time it is when the babies come.
David Mace...ummmm...close enough to 164, I reckon. But, when you get a chance, I'd be interested in the explanation.
I mean, what game it was, and all.
David. A man after God's own heart.
Mace. I'm not sure I've heard that name before...probably have.
But, David Mace is a fine name. It is a manly name. It's not one of those goofy little kid names that parents tag their kids with, and sounds stupid when they grow up.
Fine name.
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