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Sounds reasonable to me Charlie...Here's a few more I remember...then we better stop before the "topic police" get us.
Trouba (fool)...Husa (goose)...Pitlik (a little sack)...Sutzik ( something that sticks up al la "Alfalfa")...Knedlky (dumpling)....Zajic (rabbit).
I got along...stilll do...fine with my wife's relatives...They all held up the "thrifty" end of the Czech nature.
Pete
-----Original Message----- From: Charlie Vlk <cvlk@comcast.net> To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wed, Jan 16, 2013 6:33 pm Subject: RE: [CBQ] Railroad nicknames Pete-
Actually, Grodek is Polish and means “Gate”. Vlk is Czech/Bohemian/Slovak and is the Indo-European root word for all the words that mean “Wolf”.
Perhaps the Q had too many of us working for it which accounts for its, er, “thrifty” reputation!
Charlie Vlk
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