Tottenham

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A suburban area in northern London.
  2. 2
    Tottenham Hotspur F.C., a football club in north London.
  3. 3
    A locality in the Lachlan council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
  4. 4
    A suburb of Melbourne in the City of Maribyrnong, Victoria, Australia.

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spursspurs

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"In the street, vans roared past him; brutality blared out on placards; men were trapped in mines; women burnt alive; and once a maimed file of lunatics being exercised or displayed for the diversion of the populace (who laughed aloud), ambled and nodded and grinned past him, in the Tottenham Court Road, each half apologetically, yet triumphantly, inflicting his hopeless woe."

Etymology

From Old English personal name Totta, in the genitive case Tottan + hām (“homestead”).

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