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Wetwang

Wetwang proper noun: a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE9359).

wetwang: a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE9359)
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Proper noun

Wetwang

  1. A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE9359).

Origin of Wetwang

From either Old Norse vaett-vangr (“field for the trial of a legal action”) or Old English wet (“wet”) + Old English wang (“field”), as compared to the nearby dry field at Driffield

Questions about Wetwang

What does Wetwang mean?
Wetwang means a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE9359).
What part of speech is Wetwang?
Wetwang is a proper noun.

Words near Wetwang in the dictionary

  1. Wettsteins
  2. wetu
  3. Wetumpka
  4. Wetuppa
  5. wetus
  6. Wetwang
  7. wetware
  8. wetwell
  9. wetwells
  10. wetwood
  11. Wetwoods

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Wetwang (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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