A strange point, Arianrod. I think that in fact it was a name, or some sort of call. Tolkien did sometimes use names for people within the context of dialogue and not without. There is an example of this, I believe, in the Mustering of Rohan chapter, though I could not be sure. I suppose it could could be an orkish equivalent of "lazy bones" or "good-for-nothing", something to that effect.
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