Discussion Forum—A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language

Ran across a book ad this morning.  There's a sub-genre of "Amish Romance".  I've read through a few of them, and they are not very well-researched.  Many of them portray the Amish as luddites, or as prudes, for instance, which is definitely not the case.  In the case of this book, ot is apparently a series based on the Quarrel family.

That's not a common Amish surname.  In fact, if one calls every Quarrel in the phone book, none of them admit to being Amish. (joke)  It also seems like a difficult name for members of a peace church, which got me to thinking.  Does the word come from the surname or vice-versa. 

The surname comes from the word, apparently, and that got me to wondering.  What other words come from names?  I recently lerned that "to roger" comes from the name.  And I quickly came up with hooker, but I couldn't think of any others.

Except that prostitutes were hookers before General Hooker. His men may have popularized the term, but the term was around before the officer was.  The term seems to come from the pickpocketing habits of prostitutes - I guess it's easier to pick a pocket when the fellow isn't wearing his britches, and if he catches you, he's less likely to aggressively pursue when he's nekkid.  That's better than the vagina dentata theory that sprang up in the few microseconds before I nsaw their explanation.

But now, I'm thinking about words that sprung from names.  Is Martinizing a word? (And is there a dry cleaner ANYWHERE that offers 1-hour turnaround?)