English Explanatory Dictionary

Stukeley

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Old English.
  2. A suburb of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England, usually known as Stukeley Meadows (OS grid ref TL2272).

Word forms

Stukeley Stukeleys Stuckley

Etymology

Habitational surname from the villages of Great and Little Stukeley, in Cambridgeshire, from Old English *styfic (“clearing in a wood”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

Related words

Great Stukeley Little Stukeley The Stukeleys
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