Is that really lazy? It's exactly the sort of name I can imagine cheeky scientists coming up with, perhaps starting off jokey but eventually losing all such con

Is that really lazy? It's exactly the sort of name I can imagine cheeky scientists coming up with, perhaps starting off jokey but eventually losing all such connotation and simply becoming standard. Are names such as "strange quarks", "Big Bang", "oobleck" (taken from Dr. Seuss), etc., so dry and dignified?