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Slybody Surname Definition:

SLYBODY: Slytbody occurs in Sussex in the XIII. century. It has been interpreted by the tailors' phrase, "long in the fork," though it more probably means slight, or meagre in person. Four centuries later, it occurs in the same county as Slybody; but this form reminds us more of a moral characteristic.

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Slybody Surname Meaning

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SLYBODY: Slytbody occurs in Sussex in the XIII. century. It has been interpreted by the tailors' phrase, "long in the fork," though it more probably means slight, or meagre in person. Four centuries later, it occurs in the same county as Slybody; but this form reminds us more of a moral characteristic.

Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

SLYBODY: The same as Slytbody, which Lower says is found in Sussex in the thirteenth century, and four centuries after in the same county as Slybody. The name means thin and tall in body.

Ludus Patronymicus (1868) by Richard Stephen Charnock

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