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gack

English

Etymology

Apparently from the sound made; believed to have first appeared in comic strips.

Interjection

gack

  1. (often repeated several times) The sound of a cat coughing up a hairball.
  2. A similar sound made to show disgust or disapproval.

Verb

gack (third-person singular simple present gacks, present participle gacking, simple past and past participle gacked)

  1. (intransitive) To make a 'gack' noise.
  2. (transitive) To expectorate a hairball.

Translations

Quotations

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:gack.

Swedish

Verb

gack

  1. (archaic) singular imperative of .

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mack

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mæk/

Etymology 1

Clipping of mackerel (pimp)

Noun

mack (plural macks)

  1. (slang) An individual skilled in the art of seduction using verbal skills.
    She left with him; he must be a true mack.
Derived terms
  • mack daddy

Verb

mack (third-person singular simple present macks, present participle macking, simple past and past participle macked)

  1. (slang) To act as pimp; to pander.
    Synonyms: hustle, whore out; see also Thesaurus:pimp out
  2. (slang) To seduce or flirt with.
    Synonyms: entice, pick up
Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of mackintosh

Noun

mack (plural macks)

  1. (Britain) A raincoat or mackintosh.
Translations

Etymology 3

Blend of mast +? stack

Noun

mack (plural macks)

  1. An element of a ship's superstructure which places the function of a ship's mast on its exhaust stack, adding the skeletal supporting structure to the smokestack to support the mast's complement of functions.

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

mak +? -k

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mat?sk/

Noun

mack m

  1. Oriental poppy (Papaver orientale)

Declension

Further reading

  • mack in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
  • mack in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Swedish

Etymology

Since 1920 from the trademark MACK, the abbreviation for "Mathiasson, Andersson, Collin, Key", the owners of one of the first companies that opened gas stations in Sweden.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mak/

Noun

mack c

  1. (somewhat colloquial) gas station
    Synonyms: bensinmack, bensinstation

Declension

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