Meanings
plural Witherspoons · alternative Weatherspoon · alternative Wotherspoon
- A surname from Middle English.
During the boom times, Paris Hilton, Snoop Dogg, Reese Witherspoon and Matt Damon all gushed about or invested in crypto projects, bringing a mainstream audience to the wonky world of digital currencies.
2023 July 6, Erin Griffith, David Yaffe-Bellany, “How Tom Brady’s Crypto Ambitions Collided With Reality”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2023
Origin
- Middle Englishwether“ram”
- EnglishWitherspoon
Scottish habitational surname, perhaps from Middle English wether (“ram”) + spong (“narrow strip of land”).
More words from Middle English
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Witherspoon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Witherspoon
“Witherspoon.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Witherspoon. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Witherspoon,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Witherspoon.
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