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
• Mandrake - A very masculine duck
• Aromax - the strongest deoderant money can buy
• Dirk - Hungarian for Dink

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The Purple Duck

1. Duck= As in a duck.
2. Purple= a color.