Last name: PROUDFOOT
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PROUDFOOT : This last name is indexed 21,589 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
PROUDFOOT : Scottish: nickname for someone with a strutting or swaggering gait from Older Scots and Middle English proud prood ‘proud haughty’ + fote ‘foot’. Alternatively it may be an alteration by folk etymology of the Older Scots adjective proudfull ‘excessively full bloated’.
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