Etymology

Cockcroft

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Today it means: A surname from Old English. Full definition →

Old English cocc
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromcocc“cock, rooster”
  2. English todayCockcroft

Topographic surname from Old English cocc (“cock, rooster”) + croft (“enclosed field”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishcocc all →

Cockburncockle

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.