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Metcalf

The origin and history of Metcalf.

Etymology

Possibly comes from Old English *metecealf (“meat calf”), a calf fattened up for eating. As a surname, it may have started as a jocular nickname for someone thought to be as "fat as a prize-calf," or else referred to the occupation of fattening up such a calf.

Origin: Old English

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