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However, the "schick" part has us mystified
Well, "schick" as an adverb means stylish, as a verb it means to be suitable for or to be favorable. So, I guess your name means "stylish greed".
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Dear Jazz: Please reconsider. I suspect very strongly you may in trying to jest have exacerbated a longstanding source of discomfort to a very pleasant person. The first part of that name is so old I suspect very strongly that it meant something quite acceptable in the beginning. wwh
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Dear wwh and JazzO, don't worry about inadvertantly hurting my feelings. I was just curious about my family name-- the "greedy" part is definitely not a longstanding source of discomfort for my family-- more amusing than embarrassing. By the way, does "schick" really mean stylish? How cool! I shall inform my family posthaste. 
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Ah, but dear Bill, you will recall that the "greed" part was established by the fair maiden herself.
Would you admonish Jazzo for adding the stylish flair??
Or, once again, have i completely missed out on the ch*tongue*eek nature of a post?
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I'm glad that Rapunzel is tougher than I thought. Her having mentioned the greed part was no assurance that she would care to have others do so. Sort of galgenhumor. I don't like name jokes. Most of them are stupid and mean. Of course I do not care to have the H in my last name replaced with a C. When it happens, my retort is "kiss it."
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One more word learned in NEHGR is "goody" used as a title of sorts for the ladies on the bottom of the social totem pole in Colonial days. The only surviving use of it I have encountered is for the ladies who tidy up the Harvard dorms.
Before anyone bothers to correct me, I know that just as Harvard has a Yard instead of a campus, it has Houses, not dorms.
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