Weekley — Recorded in the modern spellings of Weakley, Weekely, Weekley, and Weekly, this is an English locational surname. It comes from the village of Weekley, near Kettering, in the county of Northamptonshire. The village has the distinction of being… … Surnames reference
Weakley — Recorded in the modern spellings of Weakley, Weekely, Weekley, and Weekly, this is an English locational surname. It comes from the village of Weekley, near Kettering, in the county of Northamptonshire. The village has the distinction of being… … Surnames reference
Weekly — Recorded in the modern spellings of Weakley, Weekely, Weekley, and Weekly, this is an English locational surname. It comes from the village of Weekley, near Kettering, in the county of Northamptonshire. The village has the distinction of being… … Surnames reference
mushroom — {{11}}mushroom (n.) mid 15c., muscheron, musseroun (attested 1327 as a surname, John Mussheron), from Anglo Fr. musherun, O.Fr. meisseron (11c., Mod.Fr. mousseron), perhaps from L.L. mussirionem (nom. mussirio), though this might as well be… … Etymology dictionary
Juniper (given name) — Infobox Given Name Revised name = Juniper imagesize= caption= pronunciation= gender = Both meaning = region = origin = related names = Guinevere, Jennifer , Genevieve, Ginevra footnotes = The given name is either in reference to the English… … Wikipedia
Boughtflower — This intriguing name, with variant spellings Boutflour and Bonefellow, derives from the Medieval English bulte , to sift and flour , flour, hence, sift flour , a nickname for a miller. The surname is first recorded at the beginning of the 14th… … Surnames reference
Boutflour — This intriguing name, with variant spellings Boutflour and Bonefellow, derives from the Medieval English bulte , to sift and flour , flour, hence, sift flour , a nickname for a miller. The surname is first recorded at the beginning of the 14th… … Surnames reference
cob — a word or set of identical words with a wide range of meanings, many seeming to derive from notions of heap, lump, rounded object, also head and its metaphoric extensions. With cognates in other Germanic languages; of uncertain origin and… … Etymology dictionary
lynch — (v.) 1835, from earlier Lynch law (1811), likely named after William Lynch (1742 1820) of Pittsylvania, Virginia, who c.1780 led a vigilance committee to keep order there during the Revolution. Other sources trace the name to Charles Lynch (1736… … Etymology dictionary