mac1
[mak]
- fellow; bud (a familiar term of address to a man or boy whose name is not known to the speaker).
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Origin of mac1
First recorded in 1650–60; special use of Mac
mac2
or mack
[mak]
- a mackintosh.
- McIntosh.
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Origin of mac2
shortened form
Mac
[mak]
- a male given name.
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Mac-
- a prefix found in many family names of Irish or Scottish Gaelic origin, as MacBride and Macdonald.
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Also Mc- Mc-, M'-.
Origin of Mac-
< Irish, Scots Gaelic mac son, Old Irish macc; akin to Welsh, Cornish mab
Mac.
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M.Ac.
- Master of Accountancy.
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Contemporary Examples
With Mac and Jesse we wanted to establish a friendship that was mostly a product of their common situation and enclosed world.
Nitehawk Shorts Festival: ‘Brute,’ a Twisted Take on Playing in the DarkJulia Grinberg
November 28, 2014
Brute is the story of Mac and Jesse, two disenfranchised teens who turn to robbing houses as a form of recreation and quick cash.
Nitehawk Shorts Festival: ‘Brute,’ a Twisted Take on Playing in the DarkJulia Grinberg
November 28, 2014
Fewer and fewer of them, says Mac Naughton, are caught roaming the store “in the middle of the night.”
I remember them coming over all adorable with mac and cheese, collard greens, fried chicken.
All Eyes on Anjelica Huston: The Legendary Actress on Love, Abuse, and Jack NicholsonAlex Suskind
November 10, 2014
That was my conclusion reading the results of a new survey put out by the MAC AIDS Fund (PDF).
Historical Examples
You've got to have a plot, Mac, and if you've got to have a plot, you've got to have sin.
The Foolish LoversSt. John G. Ervine
"Don't take that stuff too seriously, Mac," the captain remonstrated.
Mac was clutching his shoulder, stirred for once out of his vaunted "deegnity."
The Great Dome on MercuryArthur Leo Zagat
"But its all Mac's gold, you know," said the cook regretfully.
The Trail of a SourdoughMay Kellogg Sullivan
"Ask him how far it is to the Fort, Mac," said one of the men.
The Trail of a SourdoughMay Kellogg Sullivan
mac
mack
- British informal short for mackintosh (def. 1), mackintosh (def. 3)
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Mac1
- mainly US and Canadian an informal term of address to a man
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Word Origin
C20: abstracted from Mac-, prefix of Scottish surnames
MAC
- multiplexed analogue component: a transmission coding system for colour television using satellite broadcasting
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Mac.
- Maccabees (books of the Apocrypha)
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Mac-
Mc- or M'-
- (in surnames of Scottish or Irish Gaelic origin) son ofMacDonald; MacNeice
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Word Origin
from Goidelic mac son of; compare Welsh mab, Cornish mab
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Word Origin and History for mac
Mac
casual, generic term of address for a man, 1928, from Irish and Gaelic mac, a common element in Scottish and Irish names (literally "son of"); hence used generally from early 19c. for "a Celtic Irishman" (see Mac-).
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Mac-
common element in Scottish and Irish names, from Old Celtic *makko-s "son." Cognate root *makwos "son" produced Old Welsh map, Welsh mab, ap "son;" also probably cognate with Old English mago "son, attendant, servant," Old Norse mögr "son," Gothic magus "boy, servant," Old English mægð "maid" (see maiden).
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