Etymology

Cruickshank

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Today it means: A surname transferred from the nickname. Full definition →

Scots Cruickshank
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The story

  1. Scots · borrowed fromCruickshank
  2. English todayCruickshank

From Scots Cruickshank, from cruick (“bent; lame”) + shank (“leg”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.