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penistone¹

Where it comes from

From the village of Penistone in Yorkshire, England.

noun penistones · peniston · peneston · pennistone · pennystone

  1. countable, obsolete, uncountable A coarse woolen material or frieze, used in England during the 16th and 17th centuries.

    Similar: forest whites

Penistone²

  • /pɛnɪstən/ Yorkshire

Where it comes from

Perhaps from Proto-Brythonic *penn (“head”) + Old English -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). No relation to penis.

proper noun Penistones · Peniston

  1. countable, uncountable A market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2403).
  2. countable, uncountable A habitational surname from Old English.

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@misc{penistone_2026,
  title = {penistone},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/penistone},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}