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Scottish
Scottish : name of a clan associated with Caithness, derived from the Old Norse personal name Gunnr (or the feminine form Gunne), a short form of any of various compound names with the first element gunn ‘battle’.Scottish : sometimes an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Dhuinn ‘son of the servant of the brown one’ (see Dunn). (According to Woulfe a name of the same form also existed in Sligo, Ireland.)English : metonymic occupational name for someone who operated a siege engine or cannon, perhaps also a nickname for a forceful person, from Middle English gunne, gonne ‘ballista’, ‘cannon’, ‘gun’. The term originated as a humorous application of the Scandinavian female personal name Gunne or Gunnhildr.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : habitational name from any of various places so named in England and Scotland, as for example Harrow in northwest London (Herges in Domesday Book), Harrow Head in Nether Wasdale, Cumbria, both named from Old English hearg, hærg ‘(pagan) temple’, and Harrow near Mey, Caithness.
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English : from a diminutive of Dunn.English : habitational name from Downhead in Somerset or Donhead in Wiltshire, both named from Old English dūn ‘hill’, ‘down’ + Old English hēafod ‘head’, ‘end’.Scottish : habitational name from a place in Caithness.
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English (mainly Devon and Cornwall)
English (mainly Devon and Cornwall) : nickname from Norman French buge ‘mouth’ (Late Latin bucca), applied either to someone with a large or misshapen mouth or to someone who made excessive use of his mouth, i.e. a garrulous, indiscreet, or gluttonous person. The word is also recorded in Middle English in the sense ‘victuals supplied for retainers on a military campaign’, and the surname may therefore also have arisen as a metonymic occupational name for a medieval quartermaster.Scottish (Caithness and Orkney) : unexplained.
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The Tragedy of Macbeth' A nobleman of Scotland.
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English
English : variant of Gill.Scottish and English : habitational name from Gills in the parish of Canisbay, Caithness.
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