View source for True Meanings of Amtgard Names

by the [[Purple Duck]]:

Its kind of funny that he should bring it up at this particular point, but the Artist formerly known as [[Qdink]] (pronounced quink, incidentally) is right that Amtgard names can have additional meaning.

Some examples:

*[[Ivar]] - "a great distance", as in I will kick your butt ivar if you cause me *any trouble
*[[Squeak]] -"a high whistle caused by her hitting you in the solar plexus"
*[[Otto]] - a synonym for "should", I otto get off of my ass and find a job.
*[[Kayrana]] - an Algerian dish made from couscous and lamb
*[[Blackangel]] - a sign that affirmative action is making strides across the board
*[[Topknot]] - among sailors in nineteenth century England, a challenge to outdo one another
*[[Dragos]] - to bore or slow down a party
*[[Axgar]] - the act of ritually cutting up fish
*[[D'alle]]- 
**1)  to spend excessive amounts of time in a lady's chamber, 
**2)  a small but excessively hard nut with a woody flavor
*[[Ashki]] - the Celtic ritual of rubbing charcoal and owl grease on a man before lobbing him off a cliff to appease angry sea gods
*[[Tank Girl]] - a drunken attempt to express appreciation to an exotic dancer as one stumbles into the parking lot of a bar 
*[[Roger]] - to have sex
*[[Calvin]] - to stop having sex
*[[Mithrandir]] -   To yearn for a long missing team of sleigh deer (preferrably caribou or reindeer)
*[[Phocion]]
**1)  A light sauce of dill and cream served over roasted quail or other game bird, 
**2)  roughly cooresponds to the slang "Right On!"
*[[Savaen]] - 
**1) to have a great deal of inside information, 
**2) a healing aromatic balm closely related to Myrrh
*[[Shendo]] - an East Asian martial art popular as a fad in Kyoto between 1328 and 1333, no longer practiced.
*[[Spirit]]
**1) What Bolt yells to the rest of the Claw Pike unit, 
**2) a spunky apparition, 
**3) What a pep squad generates
*[[Tristan]]
**1) a location used for an illicit sexual rendevous, 
**2) to have one's chest collapsed
*[[Dirk]] - Hungarian for Dink


Quack

The Purple Duck

# Duck= As in a duck.
# Purple= a color.