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▪ I. maycock U.S.|ˈmeɪkɒk|
Forms: 6 macocqwer, 7 macokos, macocquer, 8 macoquer, 7– macock, 8–9 maycock.
[Algonquin (Powhattan dialect) mahcawq (vocabulary in Strachey Virginia 1612).]
A kind of melon.
1588T. Harriot Virginia ii. C 2 b, They set..Beanes and Peaze..among the seedes of Macócqwer Melden, and Planta solis. 1612Capt. Smith Map Virginia 17 A fruit like vnto a muske millen,..which they call Macocks. 1612Strachey Virginia (Hakl. Soc.) 119 The macokos is of the forme of our pumpeons. 1633–6Gerarde's Herbal ii. cccxlv. 919 Macocks Virginiani, sive Pepo Virginianus, The Virginian Macocke, or Pompion. 1681Grew Catal. Rarities ii. 195 The Macocquer. A Virginian Fruit. 1705Beverly Virginia 27 Their macocks are a sort of melo-pepones, or lesser sort of pompion. 1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 60 The..name survives in its Anglicized form of Maycock. 1896P. A. Bruce Econ. Hist. Virginia I. 98 There were muskmelons,..macocks or squashes, gourds,..beans and pumpkins.
▪ II. maycock
variant of meacock. |