What given name has the most non-name meanings?

In My Humble Opinion
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I nominate Chuck, which of the top of my head can serve as noun, verb, or adjective meaning:
-throw/discard
-vomit
-a grade of beef
-the part of a drill into which you insert a drillbit
-the sound made by chickens
-a light tap
-food

And I won’t go into compound words such as chuckwagon, or woodchuck.

Can you think of any more versatile commonly used name?

2

Bill

(From Dictionary.com)

  1. a statement of money owed for goods or services supplied: He paid the hotel bill when he checked out.
  2. a piece of paper money worth a specified amount: a ten-dollar bill.
  3. Government. a form or draft of a proposed statute presented to a legislature, but not yet enacted or passed and made law.
  4. bill of exchange.
  5. a written or printed public notice or advertisement.
  6. any written paper containing a statement of particulars: a bill of expenditures.
  7. Law. a written statement, usually of complaint, presented to a court.
  8. Slang. one hundred dollars: The job pays five bills a week.
  9. playbill.
  10. entertainment scheduled for presentation; program: a good bill at the movies.
  11. Obsolete.
    a. a promissory note.
    b. a written and sealed document.
    c. a written, formal petition.
    –verb (used with object)
  12. to charge for by bill; send a bill to: The store will bill me.
  13. to enter (charges) in a bill; make a bill or list of: to bill goods.
  14. to advertise by bill or public notice: A new actor was billed for this week.
  15. to schedule on a program: The management billed the play for two weeks.
    —Idiom
  16. fill the bill, to fulfill the purpose or need well: As a sprightly situation comedy this show fills the bill.

And my own:
17. The beak of a bird

3

I don’t know if I can beat Chuck, but my IRL name comes close:

Ginger:

A girls name
A spice
A colour
An manner of behaving
A hair colour
As a visiting German student suggest - A good tasting root

4

I don’t think it beats “Bill,” but how about Frank?

1 : marked by free, forthright, and sincere expression <a frank reply>
2 a : unmistakably evident <frank materialism> b : clinically evident and unmistakable <frank pus>

1 a : to mark (a piece of mail) with an official signature or sign indicating the right of the sender to free mailing b : to mail free c : to affix to (mail) a stamp or a marking indicating the payment of postage
2 : to enable to pass or go freely or easily

1 a : the signature of the sender on a piece of franked mail serving in place of a postage stamp b : a mark or stamp on a piece of mail indicating postage paid c : a franked envelope
2 : the privilege of sending mail free of charge

1 : frankfurter

“Bob” is probably right up there, too.

5

How about Jack?

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6

Wow!
Apparently I don’t know jack anout names!

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[QUOTE=Dinsdale]
-the sound made by chickens
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That would be cluck.

But chuck is an archaic term for a buddy. “Good show, old chuck.”

8

Chuck Hurley is one unfortunate name to have.

9

The OED gives 464 definitions of set, which is more than any other word. It’s just a shame that nobody called their kids Set. I blame that serpent god in the Conan universe. He ruined the name for everyone.

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[QUOTE=tdn]
That would be cluck.

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I’m pretty certain I’ve heard chuck as a less-common synonym for cluck, as well as used to “call” chickens when feeding them.

11

Can we include homonyms to the name? If so, then “Matt.”

12

“Bob” might place, but likely not win. I think Smitty or Zoggie have the top contenders.

13

Let’s not discuss “Dick”

14

I thought I had a Pat answer to this, but I’m wrong by a factor of two. You can Bill me for it.

15

[QUOTE=Smitty]
3. Government. a form or draft of a proposed statute presented to a legislature, but not yet enacted or passed and made law.
[/QUOTE]

This annoys me because my party’s critic for LGBT rights is named Bill, so I have to constantly fish for circumlocutions to avoid saying “Bill’s bill” (e.g. “the draft legislation proposed by Mr. Siksay”).

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[QUOTE=garygnu]
Can we include homonyms to the name? If so, then “Matt.”
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If homophones are allowed then I think Rose wins
IIRC rose/roes/rows is the homophone with the greatest number of meanings