different between mack vs zack

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

References

English

Alternative forms

• zac

Etymology

Origin unknown; possibly an alteration or dialect form of six.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /zak/

Noun

zack (plural zacks)

1. (Australia) Sixpence.
   • 2014, Frank E. Burdett, The Purple Tree: The Queensland Outback in the 1860s:

     "Strewth, Dad! It's not worth a zack!" said Barry.

2. (Australia, rare) Five cents.
3. (Australia) A six-month or six-year prison sentence.

References

• Dalzell, Tom et al. (2008) The Consise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, rev. ed. edition, London and New York: Routledge, page 717

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ak

Verb

zack

1. singular imperative of zacken
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of zacken