Mosley

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Mosley

/ˈmoʊzli/ US

Where it comes from

From several places in England, including the derivations:

* Old English mos (“peat bog”) + leah (“woodland, clearing”), equivalent to moss + -ley (“lea”).

* Old English mus (“mouse”) + leah (“woodland, clearing”), equivalent to mouse + -ley (“lea”).

* From the Old English byname Moll.

proper noun Moseley · Mosely · Mossley · Mozeley · Mozley

A habitational surname. Whether it is the soul food restaurant on 38th Street, where he and his father and trainer, Jack Mosley, dined earlier in the week, or at the workouts leading up Saturday's WBC welterweight championship rematch against Vernon Forrest at Conseco Fieldhouse, Mosley cannot go anywhere without hearing t

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Closest in meaning: thompson, mosely, moseley, mosby, mozley, mesley, moxley, molyneux, mobley, motley, mosher, mossey, mollett, massey, madeley, mosey

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@misc{mosley_2026,
  title = {Mosley},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mosley},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}