Bowley

B3O1W4L1E1Y4

proper noun

A hamlet in Blakemere parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5452).

OriginOld English boga →
UncommonScrabble 14
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

proper nounBowley (countable and uncountable, plural Bowleys)

plural Bowleys

  1. countableuncountableA hamlet in Blakemere parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5452).
  2. countableuncountableA habitational surname from Old English.

Origin

  1. Old Englishboga“bow; riverbend”
  2. EnglishBowley

From Old English boga (“bow; riverbend”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to bow + -ley (“lea”).

More words from Old English

Full word history & related roots →

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

elbowy
Cite this entry
APA

Bowley. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bowley

MLA

“Bowley.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bowley. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Bowley,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bowley.

Source: Bowley on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.