Can you name the Scrabble-legal words that have been used by Presidents as their first or last name? by MRL

Can you name the Scrabble-legal words that have been used by Presidents as their first or last name?

created by MRL

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Correctly named names will show up below
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Source: Online Scrabble Players Dictionary
First & last names only. Nicknames included if President is primarily identified by such. (I.e., if Thomas Cruise somehow ever became President, "Tom" would count.) Other names may be bonuses.
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Points	Name	Definition
19		Benzoin, a gum resin
19		To pry open with a crowbar
17		Slang for a male sex organ (in official tournament word list only)
15		A medieval English landowner
14		A toilet
12		To clean with a vacuum cleaner
11		To pillage
10		To cut or pass into or through

Points	Name	Definition
10		A woman's undergarment
9		A shrub
9		A place where rabbits live and breed
8		One that conveys in a two-wheeled vehicle
8		To cross by wading
8		A small bird
6		To present a statement of costs to
6		To bestow upon
17	To bestow upon
13	To bestow upon
13	To bestow upon
11	To bestow upon
11	To bestow upon
9	To bestow upon
	To bestow upon
	To bestow upon
	To bestow upon
	To bestow upon
	To bestow upon
	To bestow upon
	To bestow upon

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Scrabble-Legal US Presidents Quiz

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	NJE:	Oct 15th, 2010 at 06:41 GMT		4 points
	What about "Teddy" Roosevelt? Great quiz though.

	polixenes:	Oct 15th, 2010 at 15:17 GMT		7 points
	No "male anatomy" for Richard Nixon? And can you explain the Benjamin/Benzoin answer? I know benzoin but I don't get the reference. Fun quiz!

	imclala:	Oct 15th, 2010 at 19:34 GMT		-3 points
	I've never heard "hoover" used as a verb. Maybe you could add, "or a vacuum cleaner brand"? Also, fix the spelling of vacuum while you're at it.

	polixenes:	Oct 15th, 2010 at 20:01 GMT		5 points
	Hoover is a British term, I believe - much like we might use "xerox" as a generic verb.

	mungar:	Oct 15th, 2010 at 21:18 GMT		-1 points
	No 'Teddy'? Also, it may be pushing it, but what about 'Van' from Martin Van Buren?

	Klaus:	Oct 15th, 2010 at 21:57 GMT		1 point
	@NJE, Teddy Roosevelt's full name is Theodore. Teddy is just a shortened nickname.

	Karras:	Oct 15th, 2010 at 22:10 GMT		1 point
	@Klaus: Teddy should be an answer. The rules state that "Nicknames are included if the president is primarily identified as such," and the man is referenced as "Teddy Roosevelt" as often (or more often) than the formal "Theodore Roosevelt."

	squasha:	Oct 16th, 2010 at 02:56 GMT		-1 points
	What about Woodrow? Guess not.

	MRL:	Oct 16th, 2010 at 03:05 GMT		4 points
	Teddy has been added; sorry for overlooking it. Dick has been added as a bonus answer (since it was, as far as I'm aware, only an occasional and often derogatory nickname.) Woodrow has been added to the snark bonuses. All definitions used are from the online Scrabble players' dictionary. I have only altered it in cases where the definition was a giveaway, and even then only to replace the giveaway word with its own Scrabble definition. E.g., I replaced the word "walk" in the definition of "Walker" (which read "one who walks.") I've added the definition of benzoin to the definition for that clue to help people out. I figure that might have been sufficiently unclear to warrant an addendum (especially since it's the least gotten one so far). Sorry I can't clarify how the term benjamin is used for it, I'm not familiar with benzoin at all, myself. Thanks for the comments and suggestions, and thanks LTH for making this an editor's pick!

	MRL:	Oct 16th, 2010 at 03:09 GMT		5 points
	@mungar: Since his full surname is "van buren", I decided against it (judgment call; if a lot of people think I've made a bad call, I'll change it). I had it in as one of the bonus snarks, but had forgotten to add just "van" as an alternate to bring it up. It's fixed now.

	LTH:	Oct 16th, 2010 at 03:40 GMT		2 points
	@MRL, thank YOU for the fun quiz. I agree with your decision about Van Buren.

	demonstah:	Oct 16th, 2010 at 17:37 GMT		3 points
	TR never called himself Teddy.

	MRL:	Oct 17th, 2010 at 06:33 GMT		3 points
	@demonstah: True, but lots of other people did when he was president, including the newspapers.

	bumbles:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 11:42 GMT		3 points
	Am I the only one desperately trying to rack their brains for a president called 'bra' or 'thong'?

	cmn8:	Oct 21st, 2010 at 03:42 GMT		5 points
	If I remember correctly, TR's first wife called him Teddy, and when she died, he didn't want anyone else to use the name. Which is heartbreakingly adorable.

	deugea:	Oct 21st, 2010 at 03:42 GMT		4 points
	LOVE the snarky bonus answers. However, did anyone else just go through all 44 presidents? That guarantees success. Hmmm...not sure if forced order is good, or frustrating (starting with Benjamin? What the hell, man?!?). Great quiz, though.

	Babomomebeo:	Oct 21st, 2010 at 06:23 GMT		7 points
	JOHNSON is in fact Scrabble-legal. The word, along with hundreds of other vulgarities, was expurgated from the widely published Scrabble dictionary to make it more family-friendly. But it remains on the Official Word List, which is the list used at Scrabble tournaments.

	MRL:	Oct 24th, 2010 at 14:14 GMT		2 points
	@Babomomebeo: OK, after verifying that (which was surprisingly difficult), I have added it to the main answers. Thank you.

	nymets18:	Jan 14th, 2011 at 18:05 GMT		2 points
	All the bonus answers are phenomenal.

	spawcle:	May 10th, 2012 at 21:33 GMT		1 point
	you forgot polk

	MRL:	May 11th, 2012 at 21:05 GMT		1 point
	@spawcle: Polk is not on the Scrabble tournament word list, and is thus not a Scrabble-legal word.