Fraggle Names :)

[Redsonga]

I thought it might be a good idea to have a topic where we talk about different fraggle names.
I got this idea when I was reading my ma's childhood copy of Bambi's Children By Felix Salten (a first printing from the 1930's) yesterday and found out Faline's brother is also named Gobo. Does it have another meaning in German I wonder?

I know many of the reasons why the characters were named what they were, but it is fun to look them up anyway :3

go⋅bo 
–noun, plural -bos, -boes. Movies, Television.
- a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
-a screen or sheet of sound-absorbent material for shielding a microphone from sounds coming from a particular direction.
Origin:
1925–30, Americanism; orig. uncert.

(For Mokey, I took off the y..and it was..interesting. I won't post the first result)

moke
-British Slang. a donkey.
-Australian Slang. a poor-looking, inferior horse.
Origin:
1840–50

Wem⋅bley  (of course, Although I can remember always being told I shouldn't wemble..I wonder did using that word to mean you couldn't make up your mind start before or after FR? I was so young I can't remember )

–noun
a former borough, now part of Brent, in SE England, near London.

Boober is one of those that doesn't really mean anything by itself (besides being a very nice cow name) but I looked up a few things very near his name...

Bóbr (Bobr, Bober ) is a river which runs through the north of the Czech Republic and the southwest of Poland, a tributary of the Oder River, with a length of 272 kilometres (2 in Czech Republic, 270 in Poland, 10th longest Polish river) and the basin area of 5,876 sq. km (46 in Czech Republic and 5,830 in Poland).

bob⋅ber2   [bob-er]
–noun
a member of a bobsled team.

My favorite is this one:

To cut short or reshape: bobbed her hair; had his nose bobbed.

[Middle English bobbe, cluster of fruit.]

A short little fraggle *hee*


And Red is..well, Red, but I still like this little bit I found:

A revolutionary activist.

*hee*

 

[The Shoe Fairy]

Lol, kinda reminds me of the Muppet election on Toughpigs earlier this year. Seems fraggles might be into "revolutionary activism" after all...

 

[dwmckim]

...and of course Traveling Matt (traveling matte), - kind of appropriate that he's related to Gobo, eh?

...then Moki could also refer to a particular Hawaiian drag queen with a deep resonant voice well known for a time in Arizona!

 

[Redsonga]

...and of course Traveling Matt (traveling matte), - kind of appropriate that he's related to Gobo, eh?

...then Moki could also refer to a particular Hawaiian drag queen with a deep resonant voice well known for a time in Arizona!

*lol* No, I don't think we'll talk about that one...
I could have sworn it was a type of fish to...

 

[Drtooth]

go⋅bo 
–noun, plural -bos, -boes. Movies, Television.
- a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
-a screen or sheet of sound-absorbent material for shielding a microphone from sounds coming from a particular direction.
Origin:
1925–30, Americanism; orig. uncert.

I thought it was taken from gobo root. And I have no idea what that is (I saw it on a grocery shopping bag, and never bothered to look it up.)

Though, i wouldn't be surprised if they named a character after a stage/filming term. I remember that R2D2 was named after Dialogue track 2 and Something begining with R track 2 (or something like that).

 

[Muppet Newsgirl]

–noun
a former borough, now part of Brent, in SE England, near London.

And by extension, a stadium, and a couple of stops on the Metropolitan and Bakerloo tube lines.

There's a very wide road that leads straight from the Wembley Park tube stop to the stadium gates. All the better to accomodate the hordes of football fans and rock fans.