"Metcalf" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Possibly from Old English *metecealf (“meat calf”), a calf to be fattened up for eating. The use as a surname could have started off as a jocular nickname for an individual thought to be as \"fat as a prize-calf\"; or else in reference to the occupation involved in fattening up such a calf.",
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