McIntosh
[mak-in-tosh]
- a variety of red apple that ripens in early autumn.
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Origin of McIntosh
1875–80; named after John McIntosh of Ontario, Canada, who first cultivated it (1796)
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Contemporary Examples
Police say he pulled a gun on them, but his family claimed that McIntosh was kneeling on the ground with his hands in the air.
But McIntosh also explained that it takes more than one show or one moment to shift attitudes.
“Almost everyone who said they were coming canceled,” McIntosh told me, leaving her with only a half-dozen or so fellow travelers.
“The rate for middle-age suicides is slightly higher now for the first time in our history,” McIntosh says.
Historical Examples
McIntosh's squadrons were in the edge of the opposite woods.
Personal Recollections of a CavalrymanJ. H. (James Harvey) Kidd
History tells us little enough of Mcintosh, but that little is all to his credit.
Stories Of GeorgiaJoel Chandler Harris
Now, McIntosh is a very good fellow, whom I have known for some time.
Under the Ensign of the Rising SunHarry Collingwood
That was the beginning of my acquaintance with McIntosh Jellaludin.
The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume EditionRudyard Kipling
McIntosh never told me what position he had held before his fall.
The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume EditionRudyard Kipling
McIntosh
McIntosh red
- a Canadian variety of red-skinned eating apple
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Word Origin
C19: named after John McIntosh (1777–c. 1845), US-born Canadian farmer on whose property the variety was first found growing wild
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Word Origin and History for mcintosh
McIntosh
kind of red apples, 1874, from John McIntosh (b.1777), Ontario farmer who found them in 1796 while clearing woodland on his farm and began to cultivate them. The surname is Gaelic Mac an toisich "son of the chieftain."
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