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leatherhead¹

Where it comes from

From leather + head.

noun leatherheads

  1. The friarbird. The piping-crows, the laughing-jackasses, the odd leatherheads, and the coach-wheel birds, all gave us their old music, and brought back pleasant memories of travel.
  2. obsolete, slang A city watchman who wore a leather helmet.
  3. slang A firefighter.

Leatherhead²

  • /lɛðəhɛd/ UK

Where it comes from

The Leatherhead Museum has traced the history of the town from its beginnings in about AD 880 when it was known as Leodridan (dative case of a compound of leode and rida), meaning "place where people [can] ride [across the river]" in Anglo-Saxon). Later in the Domesday Book it was called Leret. Later forms recorded are Lereda, Ledreda, Leddrede (all second half of 12th century).

proper noun

  1. A town in Surrey, England.

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@misc{leatherhead_2026,
  title = {leatherhead},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/leatherhead},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}