mac

mac

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2/B language code for Macedonian.

• enPR: măk, IPA^(key): /mæk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æk
• Homophones: Mac, mack, Mack

Clipping of mackintosh.

mac (plural macs)

1. Clipping of mackintosh (“a raincoat”).
   • 1969, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, 0:04 from the start, in The Ballad of John and Yoko‎ (music video), The Beatles (actor), Vevo, published 2017:

     Standing in the dock at Southampton / Trying to get to Holland or France / The man in the mac said / You've got to go back / You know they didn't even give us a chance

2. (UK, US, Canada, Australia, slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Scottish descent, used in driving culture to denigrate someone for poor/slow/amateurish driving responses, a reference to the frugality of Scottish people.

• pac-a-mac

Clipping of macaroni.

mac (uncountable)

1. (Canada, US, slang) Clipping of macaroni.

   Is there any mac and cheese left?

   • 1998, Dennis Doyle, edited by Alison Sage, Treasury of Children's Poetry, Shirley Said, page 177:

     Who wrote "kick me" on my back?
     Who put a spider in my mac?

   • 2019, Gail Green, Marci Peschke, Lunch Recipe Queen (Kylie Jean), North Mankato, Minn.: Picture Window Books, Capstone, →ISBN, page 6:

     Nothing tastes better to me than a big ol' bowl of super creamy, cheesy mac!

• mac and cheese, mac 'n' cheese
• mac salad

• ACM, AMC, C.M.A., CAM, CMA, Cam, MCA, cam

Uncertain.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia)

mac m (plural macs)

1. (balearic) small stone, pebble

   Synonym: còdol

• mac de torrent
• macar

• “mac” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• IPA^(key): /mak/

mac m (plural macs)

1. (colloquial, slang) Clipping of maquereau (“pimp”).
   • 1997, “Elle donne son corps avant son nom”, in L'École du micro d'argent, performed by IAM:

     Devant la porte, y’avait le type du bar, la baraque / On a compris, mais trop tard, que ce mec était leur mac

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mac m (plural macs)

1. (colloquial, computing) Clipping of Macintosh.

• “mac”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

From Old Irish macc,^[1] from Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makkʷos, a variant of *makʷos (“son”) (compare Welsh mab, Gaulish mapos, Maponos).

• IPA^(key): /mˠak/, /mˠɑk/^[2][3][4]

mac m (genitive singular mic, nominative plural mic)

1. son
2. (capitalized) A common prefix of many Irish and Scottish names, signifying "son of".

   Dónall óg donn Mac Lochlainn ― young, brown-haired Donald, son of the Scandinavian

• iníon (“daughter”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mac”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mati.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmat͡s/
• Rhymes: -at͡s
• Syllabification: mac

mac f

1. mother

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “macierz”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎
• “mac”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

mac

1. (Classical K'iche') sin

From Old Irish macc, from Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makkʷos, a variant of *makʷos (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- (“to raise, increase”).

mac m (genitive singular mic, plural mec)

1. son

• mac-

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 mac, macc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

mac

1. Alternative form of make (“equal, partner”)

• IPA^(key): /mak/

From Old Irish macc, from Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makkʷos, a variant of *makʷos (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- (“to raise, increase”).

mac m (genitive mic, nominative plural mic)

1. son

• Irish: mac
• Manx: mac
• Scottish Gaelic: mac

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 mac, macc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Celtic *makkos. Cognate with Welsh mach.^[1]

mac m

1. bond, surety

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 mac(c)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

mac m (genitive maic or meic, nominative plural maic or meic)

1. Alternative spelling of macc (“son, child”)

• IPA^(key): /mak/

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic макъ (makŭ), from Proto-Slavic *makъ (“poppy”). Compare Serbo-Croatian mak, Polish mak.

mac m (plural maci)

1. poppy

Onomatopoeic.

mac

1. quack (sound made by ducks)

From Middle Irish mac, from Old Irish macc, from Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makkʷos. Cognates include Irish mac and Manx mac.

• (Lewis, Wester Ross) IPA^(key): /maʰk/^[1]
• (Harris, Uist, Barra, Skye) IPA^(key): /maxk/^[2]
• Hyphenation: mac

mac m (genitive singular mic, plural mic)

1. son
2. Used as a prefix for Irish and Scottish patronymic surnames; -son

   mac Dhòmhaill ― MacDonald (literally, “son of Donald”)

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “mac”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Colin Mark (2003) “mac”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 411
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 mac, macc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *màti.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmat͡s/
• Rhymes: -at͡s
• Syllabification: mac

mac f

1. mother (human female who begets a child)

• Lorentz, Friedrich (1908) “mãc”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎ (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 595

Cognate with Jumjum maañ, Belanda Bor mac, Shilluk mac.

mac (plural mɛ̈c)

1. fire
2. light firearm
3. prison

• Dinka-English Dictionary‎, 2005