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Huggins

Huggins proper noun: a surname originating as a patronymic.

Proper noun

Huggins

  1. A surname originating as a patronymic.

Origin of Huggins

From a medieval diminutive of the given name Hugh + patronymic suffix -s.

Questions about Huggins

What does Huggins mean?
Huggins means a surname originating as a patronymic.
What part of speech is Huggins?
Huggins is a proper noun.

Words near Huggins in the dictionary

  1. hugging
  2. hugging it out
  3. hugging oneself
  4. huggingly
  5. huggings
  6. Huggins
  7. huggle
  8. huggled
  9. huggledy-piggledy
  10. huggler
  11. hugglers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Huggins (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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