Scowcroft

name

name ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

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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