English Explanatory Dictionary

Duloe

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A hamlet in Staploe parish, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL157607).
name
  1. A village and civil parish in Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX233586).

Word forms

Duloe

Etymology

Perhaps from an unattested Old English word *dyfel (“peg”) + hōh (“spur of land”). Another possibilty is that the hamlet is named with an Old English personal name *Dēofol, a byname from dēofol (“devil”), + hōh (“spur of land”).

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