Brewer's: Worcester

(Woost'-er). A contraction of Wicii-ware-ceaster (the camptown of the Wicii people). Ware means people, and Wicii was a tribe name.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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