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Grosvenor, from gros venor, 'fat hunter'.
by cjs_ac 2y ago
Grosvenor, from gros venor, 'fat hunter'.
- card_zero 2y agoThat's excellent. I'm intrigued by Beaglehole, Clutterbuck, Cronk, Dingus, Eggink, Footlick, Gimbel, Hipkiss, Hollobone, Limp, Midgette, Mincey, Muddle, Nettleship, Noblin, Ogletree, Owl, Pardon, Pickles, Puffinburger, Riddles, Smelley, Spankie, Splatt, Thicknesse, Toadvine, Tremblay, Tubby, Twaddle, Twitt, Underdown, Whatmuff, Windy, Winker, and Wrong, but they probably mostly have mundane and logical origins. The ancestral Pickles probably just pickled things a lot, for instance.
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- walthamstow 2y agoUnsurprisingly the family behind this Norman French aristocratic name owns most of west London. The Duke of Westminster is one Hugh Grosvenor.