Etymology

Bickerstaffe

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Today it means: A village and civil parish in West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4404). Full definition →

Old English bīcere
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The story

  1. Old English · derived frombīcere“beekeeper”
  2. English todayBickerstaffe

From Old English bīcere (“beekeeper”) + stæþ (“bank, shore; landing place”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.