Uffington

U1F4F4I1N1G2T1O1N1

proper noun

A village and civil parish in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0607).

RareScrabble 16
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A village and civil parish in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0607).
  2. A village and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SU3089).
  3. A village and civil parish east of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5213).
  4. An unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States.

Origin

From Old English Uffa + -ing (“belonging to”) + tun (“town”). The first element is a variant of Æffa, a king of the Angles (c. 575), attested in names such as Effingham, Abridge, and Ufford, but of uncertain origin.

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

Uffington. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Uffington

MLA

“Uffington.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Uffington. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Uffington,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Uffington.

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