dockmackie
American
[dok-mak-ee]
/ ˈdɒkˌmæk i /
noun
Etymology
Origin of dockmackie
1810–20, < New York Dutch, perhaps < a Mahican word (with a reflex of Proto-Algonquian *-a·xkw tree) + Dutch -je diminutive suffix
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