"Mc-" meaning in All languages combined

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Prefix [English]

IPA: /mək/, /mæk/
Etymology: From Irish mac (“son”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|ga|mac||son}} Irish mac (“son”) Head templates: {{head|en|prefix|head=|sort=}} Mc-, {{en-prefix}} Mc-
  1. A patronymic used to form common Irish and Scottish names, similar to the English -son. Tags: morpheme Translations (Irish and Scottish patronymic): (Chinese Cantonese), (mak⁶) (Chinese Cantonese), (Chinese Mandarin), (mài) (Chinese Mandarin)
    Sense id: en-Mc--en-prefix-7MITTjpE Disambiguation of 'Irish and Scottish patronymic': 85 2 6 6 1
  2. (often derogatory) Used in combination with a non-name descriptive word to form mock names. Tags: derogatory, morpheme, often
    Sense id: en-Mc--en-prefix-kYyBIG6~
  3. (business) Used to form the name of McDonald's products. Tags: morpheme Categories (topical): Business
    Sense id: en-Mc--en-prefix-gpjuAPRP Categories (other): English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Cantonese translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Russian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 14 30 19 15 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 12 13 42 17 15 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 15 35 24 14 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 9 14 42 22 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Cantonese translations: 22 12 43 14 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 23 12 40 15 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 10 11 53 13 12 Topics: business
  4. (by extension, derogatory) Indicating a lack of depth or worth, by association with McDonald's. Tags: broadly, derogatory, morpheme
    Sense id: en-Mc--en-prefix-en:derogatory
  5. (by extension, derogatory, humorous) Indicating an increase in availability or an increase in consumerism causing items to be more readily available. Tags: broadly, derogatory, humorous, morpheme
    Sense id: en-Mc--en-prefix-en:derogatory1
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Traditionally written as Mc-, and later also as as Mc- Related terms: Mac-, McWord
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          "code": "yue",
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          "ref": "1950 Gerald McBoing Boing (cartoon short)",
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          "ref": "2005, Daniel J. Hill, Divinity and Maximal Greatness, Routledge, →ISBN, page 44:",
          "text": "Alternatively, one may make the example a bit sharper by discussing a being, call him 'McStupid', that always knows who he is, but knows nothing else.",
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          "ref": "2006, Brigid Lowry, Guitar Highway Rose, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 29:",
          "text": "I bet Thomas McSmart-arse makes some dumb comment about my nose-ring.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2007, Martha Kimes, Ivy Briefs: True Tales of a Neurotic Law Student, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 173:",
          "text": "And when she's not at the Law Review office, she's out with her goddamn Law Review friends. Goddamn Art McAsshole and goddamn Lisa Von- Bitchypants and the worst — the very worst — is that goddamn Charlotte Sidwell.",
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          "text": "Mc- + mansion → McMansion",
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        {
          "ref": "1983 Wallace Marx, \"It's Not How Long You Make It,\" New York Magazine, Vol. 16, No. 50 (19 Dec 1983), p11",
          "text": "Sesame Street is \"McEducation.\" Like things served by the golden arches, Sesame Street has at once elevated the dregs and lowered the quality to mediocrity"
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          "ref": "1995 Christopher Lloyd, Linda Morris & Vic Rauseo, \"Dark Victory,\" Frasier, Season 2, Episode 24 (aired 23rd May 1995), spoken by Niles Crane (played by David Hyde Pierce)",
          "text": "Two years of hard work wiped out by one of your 2 minute McSessions!"
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          "ref": "2003, Anthony Wright, British politics: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press, page 35:",
          "text": "Some of the techniques have been imported from the United States, but Britain's tight political and media village is now the European market leader in this kind of McPolitics.",
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          "ref": "2007, Martha Kimes, Ivy Briefs: True Tales of a Neurotic Law Student, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 173:",
          "text": "And when she's not at the Law Review office, she's out with her goddamn Law Review friends. Goddamn Art McAsshole and goddamn Lisa Von- Bitchypants and the worst — the very worst — is that goddamn Charlotte Sidwell.",
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          "text": "Sesame Street is \"McEducation.\" Like things served by the golden arches, Sesame Street has at once elevated the dregs and lowered the quality to mediocrity"
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          "ref": "1995 Christopher Lloyd, Linda Morris & Vic Rauseo, \"Dark Victory,\" Frasier, Season 2, Episode 24 (aired 23rd May 1995), spoken by Niles Crane (played by David Hyde Pierce)",
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          "ref": "2003, Anthony Wright, British politics: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press, page 35:",
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