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A former village in Brumby and Frodingham district, Frodingham parish, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A locality in the Shire of East Gippsland, eastern Victoria, Australia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A habitational surname from Old Norse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
A wild or feral horse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia
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History
From Old Norse brunnr (“water well”)+býr (“farmstead, village”).
Unknown; perhaps from James Brumby, early Australian soldier and pastoralist, who is said to have left horses at his abandoned property.
Across languages
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