The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #10706   Message #75767
Posted By: Helen
05-May-99 - 09:29 AM
Thread Name: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
Do you know that the surnames Webster, Brewster, and Baxter are the female names for Webber (weaver), Brewer, and Baker, i.e. occupational names. They derive from Web-sister, Brew-sister, and Bake-sister. Spinster comes from Spin-sister, but then it took on the unmarried female meaning as well. Maybe you can build on that idea somehow.

Maybe Spin-sisters, (kind of similar to spin-doctors)?

Or how about Uke-an-fiddle (you can fiddle)?

Or Fiddle-Faddle? (Is this just an Oz term? It means nonsense, balderdash, etc)

The Ukelele Ladies - remember that old song?

Up the Creek Without a Fiddle?

Umm - I think I'd better go to bed...*grin*

Helen