English Explanatory Dictionary

Scowcroft

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

Scowcroft Scowcrofts

Etymology

Topographic surname for someone who lived by a croft with a hut, from Old Norse skáli (“barn; shed, hut”) + Old English croft (“enclosed field”).

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