Etymology

Troughton

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

Old English trog
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromtrog“trough”
  2. English todayTroughton

Habitational surname from a minor place in Lancashire, from Old English trog (“trough”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.