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Messing

name

Meaning

  1. A village in Messing-cum-Inworth parish, Colchester district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL8918).
  2. present participle and gerund of mess
  3. A surname from German.

Etymology / origin

From the Old English personal name *Mæcca + -ing (“belonging to”).

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