Etymology

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

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The story

A habitational surname from a minor place in the parish of Lustleigh, Devon, from the Old English personal name *Færoc + -s- + worþig (“estate, enclosure”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.