It is explicitly against the rules (https://czechgames.com/files/rules/codenames-rules-en.pdf https://czechgames.com/files/rules/codenames-rules-en.pdf), so the

It is explicitly against the rules (https://czechgames.com/files/rules/codenames-rules-en.pdf https://czechgames.com/files/rules/codenames-rules-en.pdf), so they were correct. "Your clue must be about the meaning of the words. You can't use your clue to talk about the letters in a word or its position on the table."