Weekley (surname)

Weekley (surname)

Weekley is a surname, and may refer to:

* Boo Weekley (born 1973), American professional golfer
* Ernest Weekley (1865-1954), British philologist
* Frieda Weekley (1879-1956), German translator
* J. Marcus Weekley (born 1975), American artist
* Jim Weekley (born 1942), American politician
* Richard Weekley (21st century), American businessperson


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужно решить контрольную?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • 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

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”