McIntosh

[mak-in-tosh]

noun

a variety of red apple that ripens in early autumn.

Origin of McIntosh

1875–80; named after John McIntosh of Ontario, Canada, who first cultivated it (1796)

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Contemporary Examples of mcintosh

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.
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But McIntosh also explained that it takes more than one show or one moment to shift attitudes.
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“Almost everyone who said they were coming canceled,” McIntosh told me, leaving her with only a half-dozen or so fellow travelers.
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“The rate for middle-age suicides is slightly higher now for the first time in our history,” McIntosh says.
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Historical Examples of mcintosh

McIntosh's squadrons were in the edge of the opposite woods.
Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman
J. H. (James Harvey) Kidd
History tells us little enough of Mcintosh, but that little is all to his credit.
Stories Of Georgia
Joel Chandler Harris
Now, McIntosh is a very good fellow, whom I have known for some time.
Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun
Harry Collingwood
That was the beginning of my acquaintance with McIntosh Jellaludin.
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Rudyard Kipling
By the time that he changes his creed, as did McIntosh, he is past redemption.
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Rudyard Kipling

British Dictionary definitions for mcintosh

McIntosh

McIntosh red

noun

a Canadian variety of red-skinned eating apple

Word Origin for McIntosh

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."