English Explanatory Dictionary

Musselwhite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Old English.

Word forms

Musselwhite Musselwhites

Etymology

Unexplained. Perhaps a habitational surname from a lost place in Southern England, from Old English muscle (“mussel”) + wiht (“bend, curve”).

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