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Neat

proper nouncommon in dialogue

A surname from Middle English.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Middle English.

Etymology

English metonymic occupational surname for a herdsman or a nickname for someone thought to resemble an ox or a cow, from Middle English neat (“ox, cow”), from Old English neat.

Forms

plural
Neats
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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