Has a habit of calling people by absurd names.

A suitably absurd name for the secret of the Universe.

'And how dare you call me by that absurd name?'

Right behind her was the cadaverous old butler guy with the absurd name.

What an absurd name they had given him.

Like me, he was bookish, good at academics, and possessed an "absurd name, an ancient Greek."

Only he did wish that she wouldn't call her dogs such absurd names.

The comedy in the story is verbal, based on turns of phrase, funny euphemisms, and absurd names.

My devotion knows no bounds, but my absurd name has already involved me in a quarrel with one of your courtiers.