English Explanatory Dictionary

Tuxford

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A village and civil parish with a town council in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK7370).
  2. A village in the Rural Municipality of Marquis, Saskatchewan, Canada.
  3. A surname.

Word forms

Tuxford

Etymology

Partly uncertain. Oldest Domesday Book attestation is Tuxfarne. The first element is likely the Old English personal name *Tuk (modern day Tuck/Tucker), genitive singular *Tukes. The second element is now ford, but this is clearly a reinterpretation from the second earliest attested form Tuxforne (with vowel mutation), which leaves the original -farne element still unexplained. The modern form is equivalent to Tuck's ford.

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