Etymology

Chepping Wycombe

Today it means: A civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, formerly in Wycombe district. Full definition →

Old English cieping
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromcieping“market, marketplace, market-town”
  2. English todayChepping Wycombe

Variant of earlier Chipping, from Old English cieping (“market, marketplace, market-town”), distinguishing this Wycombe from others of the same name.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.