Form Single adjective Black, Russell Compounds Adjective + personal name LittleJohn, Horobin (<Grey (hoar) Robin), Younghughes Adjective + substantive Whitehead. The ‘bahuvrihi’ form, e.g. Swetmouth: often has ironical purport. (A bahuvrihi form is a compound name whose semantic reference is independent of the reference of its individual elements.) Transitive verb + object The so-called ‘Shakespeare’ or ‘pickpocket’ names. There are analogous forms in Old French, but their appearance in 1100 Bury records of peasant names hardly indicates imitation. (Cecily Clark, Cambridge History of the English Language Vol 2, p577) Many metonyms and metaphorical types have this form e.g. Passelew (=ferryman?), Drinkwater. Prepositions Le Lestrange Affixes (Frequently occurring) Prefixes un- Unwin spille- Spillecorne Suffixes -bon -cock Lovecock, Finchcock -kin Lovekin -less Careless, Lawless, Lovelace -thorough No extant examples? -weather Fairweather, Merryweather