† mackn.¹

Forms: 1500s macke, 1500s–1600s mack.

Origin: Of uncertain origin.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. If the game is the same as Irish adj. 3, then perhaps identical with Mac n.¹; compare also macham n.The suggestion of S. W. Singer in Researches into Hist. Playing Cards (1816) 261, ‘that it is the same with the old French Jeu de Macao ’ (i.e. macao n.) seems unlikely in view of the dating.

Obsolete.

An early modern game played in alehouses and elsewhere, perhaps Irish (Irish adj. 3) or a card game. Often linked alliteratively with maw n.⁴

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > others

laugh and lie down1522

mack1548

decoyc1555

pinionc1557

to beat the knave out of doors1570

imperial1577

prima vista1587

loadum1591

flush1598

prime1598

thirty-perforce1599

gresco1605

hole1621

my sow's pigged1621

slam1621

fox-mine-host1622

whipperginnie1622

crimpa1637

hundred1636

pinache1641

sequence1653

lady's hole1658

quebas1668

art of memory1674

costly colours1674

penneech1674

plain dealing1674

wit and reason1680

comet1685

lansquenet1687

incertain1689

macham1689

uptails1694

quinze1714

hoc1730

commerce1732

matrimonya1743

tredrille1764

Tom come tickle me1769

tresette1785

snitch'ems1798

tontine1798

blind hazard1816

all fives1838

short cards1845

blind hookey1852

sixty-six1857

skin the lamb1864

brisque1870

handicap1870

manille1874

forty-five1875

slobberhannes1877

fifteen1884

Black Maria1885

slapjack1887

seven-and-a-half1895

pit1904

Russian Bank1915

red dog1919

fan-tan1923

Pelmanism1923

Slippery Sam1923

go fish1933

Russian Banker1937

racing demon1938

pit-a-pat1947

scopa1965

1548 W. Forrest Pleasaunt Poesye 221 in T. Starkey Eng. in Reign King Henry VIII (1878) i. p. xci At ale howse too sitt at mack or at mall.

1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie Pref. Verse sig. B.ij To checke at Chesse, to heaue at Maw, at Macke to passe the time.

?1593 H. Chettle Kind-harts Dreame F1 Macke, Maw, Ruffe, Noddy, and Trumpe.

1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. xlvi. 219 Hence arrant Preachers, humming out a common-place or two, With bad, ill, naught, Pope, pots, play, mack, keeping of fowle adoe.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

mackn.²int.

Brit.

/mak/, U.S.

/mæk/

Forms: 1500s meke, 1500s–1600s mack, 1500s–1600s macke; English regional 1800s– mack, 1800s– macks, 1800s– mak, 1800s– makk, 1800s– moek.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: English mass.

Etymology: Euphemistic alteration of mass (see mass n.¹ 4a); compare also mackins n., matte n.¹, and Eng. Dial. Dict. s.vv. mack(s n., meaks int., megs n. For the substitution of final (c)k compare cock n.⁶

English regional (northern) in later use.

In by (the) mack!: expressing asseveration. Also simply mack! (as int.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > religious oaths (referring to God) > (originally) with reference to mass

by the massc1404

by the mattea1556

by (the) mackins!?1577

mack!?1577

mass!?1592

by the maskins!1611

?1577 Misogonus in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Ital. (1911) 244 Bith meke Isbell.

1599 Sir John Oldcastle (1600) C 4 Now by the macke, a prettie wench indeed.

1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor iii. i. sig. F3^v Humor? macke, I thinke it bee so indeed.

1638 N. Whiting Le Hore di Recreatione (new ed.) 130 Is not my daughter Maudge as fine a mayd, And yet, by mack, you see she troules the bowle.

1664 C. Cotton Scarronides 105 By th' Mack.

1857 J. T. Staton Bobby Shuttle 34 By th' mack, hoo says, but there'd need no Main Liquour Law.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mackn.³

Brit.

/mak/, U.S.

/mæk/

Forms: 1800s– mac, 1800s– mack, 1900s– maque.

Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Or (ii) a borrowing from French. Etymons: mackerel n.²; French maquereau.

Etymology: Shortened either < mackerel n.², or independently < French maquereau (see mackerel n.²). Compare slightly earlier mack v., and maquereau n.

slang.

1. A pimp, a pander.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > pimping or procuring > procurer of either sex > pimp

putourc1390

panderc1450

mitchera1500

apple-squire?1536

squire of dames or ladies1590

apron-squire1593

bed-broker1594

pimp1600

pippin squire1600

petticoat-monger1605

smockster1608

underputter1608

broker-between1609

squire of the placket1611

squire1612

fleshmongera1616

cock bawd1632

whiskin1632

pimp-whiskin1638

bully1675

foot pimp1690

mutton-broker1694

pimp whisk1707

flash-man1789

panderer1826

bludger1856

whoremaster1864

mack1894

lover1904

jelly bean1905

procureur1910

P.I.1928

sweetback1929

sweet man1942

nookie-bookie1943

papasan1970

1894 W. T. Stead If Christ came to Chicago 372 The procurers, the souteneurs and the ‘macs’.

1926 G. H. Maines & B. Grant Wise-crack Dict. 11/1 Mac, man who lives off the earnings of a woman.

1931 G. Irwin Amer. Tramp & Underworld Slang 125 Mac, a pander; a lover or associate of lewd women. No doubt from the French word for this class, ‘maqereau’.., although the shorter word has been in use in America for years.

1950 R. P. Blesh & H. Janis They all played Ragtime (1958) ii. 39 The dapper, foppish ‘macks’..in their Stetsons, box-back coats, and St. Louis ‘flat’ shoes got their gambling stakes from the girls.

1951 M. C. Morgan Skid Road iv. 180 The Skid Road maques herded their protégés to the city hall and registered them en masse... A spokesman..complained querulously that ‘a steady stream of fallen women are appearing to register’.

1972 T. Kochman Rappin' & Stylin' Out 243 ‘Pimp’, or ‘mack man’..a person of considerable status in the street hierarchy, who, by his lively and persuasive rapping (‘macking’ is also used in this context), has acquired a stable of girls to hustle for him and give him money.

1992 Vibe Fall (Preview Issue) 31/2 Dancehall don Super Cat gets busy chatting about how dope peewee pimps Kris Kross are on the ‘Super Cat Dessork Mix’ of ‘Jump’ but there's no sign of the self-professed preteen macks themselves.

a. U.S. slang (chiefly in African-American usage). A deceptive and convincing speaker; (also, frequently with the) flattering or ‘smooth’ talk, usually with the aim of seduction.

ΚΠ

1973 C. Milner & R. Milner Black Players (new ed.) 31 The initial line a pimp uses in recruiting a girl is often referred to as Mack or Mack talk.

1976 in D. Wepman et al. Life 45 She's [sc. a prostitute] a cold-blooded mack from a long way back.

1980 E. A. Folb Runnin' down some Lines 245 Mack, the, seductive, manipulative talk aimed at winning favor with a member of the opposite sex.

1990 ‘Ice Cube’ Who's the Mack? (song) in L. A. Stanley Rap: the Lyrics (1992) 161 Who's the mack?.. You crack a smile When he tell you that he can make you go buck wild.

1998 Indianapolis Recorder (Electronic ed.) 5 June b1 Also at half-time was a ‘Mac’ contest. Two men and women were selected from the audience by Chris Spencer and Lisa Raye to see who could come up with the best pick-up line.

b. slang (originally and chiefly U.S., esp. in African-American usage). A successful, respected, or influential person; spec. a man admired for his sexual or romantic success with women, a playboy.Quot. 1990 is from a song that explicitly rejects the claims of a pimp and a ‘smooth talker’ to be regarded as a mack in favour of this more positive sense. Cf. quot. 1990 at sense 2a, in which the sense implying deception is only used in order to be superseded by the sense exemplified below.

ΚΠ

1990 ‘Ice Cube’ Who's the Mack? (song) in L. A. Stanley Rap: the Lyrics (1992) 162 You know that I'm a Mack in my own right When it comes to rhyme and rap 'cos all I do is kick facts Unlike Iceberg Slimm and all of them be claimin' be P. I. M. P.

1994 in C. Long Love Awaits 32 We don't like a man who thinks he's Mr Casanova-get-over. He's the Mack, has everything and knows everything.

1997 in P. Munro U.C.L.A. Slang 3 88 Tom Cruise is a mack—every girl I know would die to go out with him.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

Mackn.⁴

Brit.

/mak/, U.S.

/mæk/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Mack.

Etymology: < the name of the Mack Brothers Company, New York (later the Mack Brothers Motor Car Company of Allentown, Pennsylvania), manufacturer of motor vehicles (established in 1901).

Chiefly North American (originally U.S.).

A proprietary name for: any of several types of heavy vehicle, as lorries, tractors, etc. Esp. in Mack truck.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor lorry, truck, or van > [noun]

Mack1911

1911 Sci. Amer. 13 May 496 (advt.) They ordered 38 ‘Mack’ trucks after investigating all.

1913 Hand Bk. Gasoline Automobiles (U.S. Automobile Board of Trade) 165 (caption) Mack 2-ton truck.

1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel v. 401 Charley..started to help clean the parts of the carburetor of a Mack truck.

1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 114 Mack, a ten-ton lorry. (Army.)

1959 E. K. Wenlock Kitchin's Road Transport Law (ed. 12) 85/1 Mack type N.M. heavy artillery tractors may be used for snow ploughing, or grit or salt distribution on frosty roads, notwithstanding their excess width.

1962 Times 27 Nov. 13/3 A fleet of ‘Macks’—snow-shifters.

1971 M. Tak Truck Talk 103 Mack, a popular, economical and long-wearing make of tractor, the one best known to the public... The Mack engine has a characteristic sound... The Mack trademark is a bulldog.

1972 P. J. Marshall & D. Bishop Lorries, Trucks & Vans 123 No other name can surely be more autonomous with the US truck industry than Mack. ‘Built like a Mack’ is still a phrase used by Americans to signify something solid or sturdy.

1989 A. Stoddard Living beautifully Together (1991) i. 104 An acquaintance was in an automobile accident and miraculously survived what looked like a totally wrecked car that a Mack truck had hit broadside.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† mackadj.

Forms: Middle English mak, Middle English make; Scottish pre-1700 1700s–1800s mack, 1800s mak.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Or (ii) a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: English gemæc.

Etymology: Either < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic makr (found in comparative and superlative only) tractable, suitable, becoming (Icelandic makur suitable, becoming), Faroese makur calm, tranquil, Norwegian (Nynorsk) mak calm, placid, agreeable, Swedish (regional) mak calm, placid, agreeable; cognate with Middle Dutch mac calm, tame (Dutch mak ), Middle Low German mak calm, tame, weak); or aphetic < the closely related Old English gemæc equal, cognate with Middle Dutch gemac pleasant, quiet, Middle Low German gemak , Old High German gimah fit (Middle High German gemach pleasant, German gemach easy, leisurely). Compare i-make n., match n.¹ See Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. make n.¹ for northern English mack and mackish ; see also mackly adv. and unmackly adj.Old English mæc ‘well-matched, equal, agreeable’ is recorded by Bosworth-Toller as attested in Anglo-Saxon Chron. MS. A. ann. 937, but modern editors regard the reading of MS. A. (mæcan) as an error for either mæca ‘of swords’ (after MS. C. meca) or mecga ‘of men’ (the reading of MS. D.).

Scottish in later use. Obsolete.

a. Fitting, suitable; seemly.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [adjective]

goodeOE

rightOE

queemlOE

belonglOE

behovingc1175

limplyc1200

tidefula1300

avenantc1300

mackc1330

worthy1340

hemea1350

convenientc1374

seemlya1375

shapelyc1374

ablea1382

cordant1382

meetc1385

accordable1386

accordinga1387

appurtenantc1386

pertinentc1390

accordanta1393

likea1393

setea1400

throa1400

agreeablec1425

habilec1425

suitly1426

competentc1430

suiting1431

fitc1440

proportionablec1443

justc1450

congruent?a1475

cordinga1475

congruec1475

afferant1480

belonging1483

cordable1485

hovable1508

attainanta1513

accommodate1525

agreeing1533

respondent1533

opportunate?1541

appropriate1544

commode1549

familiar1553

apt1563

pliant1565

liable1570

sortly1570

competible1586

sortable1586

fitty1589

accommodable1592

congruable1603

affining1606

feated1606

suity1607

reputable1611

suited1613

idoneousa1615

matchable1614

suitablea1616

congruous1631

fitten1642

responsal1647

appropriated1651

adapt1658

mack-like1672

squared1698

homogeneous1708

applicable1711

unforeign1718

fitted1736

congenial1738

assorted1790

accommodatable1874

OK1925

c1330 Body & Soul (Auch.) (1889) 42 (MED) Or whare ȝede ich vp and doun, Þat y no bare þe at mi bac, And was þine hors fram toun to toun At eueri stede ymake þe mak?

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 321 Make [a1500 King's Cambr. Mak], or fyt, and mete, aptus, conveniens.

b. Neat, tidy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > [adjective] > tidy

queemc1450

trig1513

trimc1521

neat1594

polite1602

terse1602

unlittered1612

ship-shape1644

snod1717

tight1720

redd1753

(as) neat (also clean) as a (new) pin1769

mack1825

tidy1828

slick1833

ship-shapely1843

trimly1858

taut1870

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Mack, Mak, neat, tidy.

Derivatives

mack-like adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [adjective]

goodeOE

rightOE

queemlOE

belonglOE

behovingc1175

limplyc1200

tidefula1300

avenantc1300

mackc1330

worthy1340

hemea1350

convenientc1374

seemlya1375

shapelyc1374

ablea1382

cordant1382

meetc1385

accordable1386

accordinga1387

appurtenantc1386

pertinentc1390

accordanta1393

likea1393

setea1400

throa1400

agreeablec1425

habilec1425

suitly1426

competentc1430

suiting1431

fitc1440

proportionablec1443

justc1450

congruent?a1475

cordinga1475

congruec1475

afferant1480

belonging1483

cordable1485

hovable1508

attainanta1513

accommodate1525

agreeing1533

respondent1533

opportunate?1541

appropriate1544

commode1549

familiar1553

apt1563

pliant1565

liable1570

sortly1570

competible1586

sortable1586

fitty1589

accommodable1592

congruable1603

affining1606

feated1606

suity1607

reputable1611

suited1613

idoneousa1615

matchable1614

suitablea1616

congruous1631

fitten1642

responsal1647

appropriated1651

adapt1658

mack-like1672

squared1698

homogeneous1708

applicable1711

unforeign1718

fitted1736

congenial1738

assorted1790

accommodatable1874

OK1925

1672 M. Bruce Rattling Dry Bones 6 For as unhappie like as they looked, yet O but our Master makes them look mack like when once he puts hand among them.

1822 J. Hogg Three Perils of Man II. 70 It would be far mair mack-like, and far mair feasible, to send yon great clan o' ratten-nos'd chaps to help our master, than to have them lying idle.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

mackv.

Brit.

/mak/, U.S.

/mæk/

Forms: 1800s– mack, 1900s– mac.

Origin: Probably formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mack n.³

Etymology: Probably < mack n.³, although attested slightly earlier.

U.S. slang (chiefly in African-American usage).

1. intransitive. To be or act as a pimp.

ΚΠ

1887 W. E. Henley Villon's Straight Tip 10 Fiddle, or fence, or mace, or mack.

1971 Who took Weight? 160 I was sho'nuff macking. I had nine..whores.

1976 in D. Wepman et al. Life 165 Your broad..starts signifying about your not having a license to mack.

a. intransitive. Usually of a man (originally a pimp): to speak flatteringly or deceptively, esp. in order to impress or seduce; (also) to make a sexual advance, to flirt. Also with on.

ΚΠ

1969 [see macking n. at Derivatives].

1970 T. Wolfe Radical Chic & Mau-mauing Flak Catchers 101 I don't want you women to be macking with the brothers if they ain't tending to business.

1989 ‘Too Short’ Freaky Tales (song) in L. A. Stanley Rap: the Lyrics (1992) 347 Mack on baby like an ice-cold vet Everything she had is what I get.

1997 Touch May 22/2 That's enough about Elo..who I met macking at the party.

b. transitive. Usually of a man: to seduce, make a sexual advance to, flirt with.J. E. Lighter Hist. Dict. Amer. Slang (1997) II. 493 records an oral use from 1974 at the University of Tennessee.

ΚΠ

1993 P. Munro U.C.L.A. Slang II. 57 He's trying to mac her.

1995 URB Dec. 112/1 SF/Oakland ain't just about mobbin' in your ride, mackin' hoes and getting ya scrilla on.

2001 Jet 19 Mar. 60/1 Although much of the action centers around..the..basketball court and the bedroom, the film is about more than just a bunch of guys shooting hoops and macking women.

Derivatives

ˈmacking n.

ΚΠ

1969 T. Kochmann in Trans-action Feb. 27/1 The pimp..by his lively and persuasive rapping (‘macking’ is also used in this context) has acquired a stable of girls.

1998 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 2 July f42 A place to potentially meet a mate—could it possibly still exist? By the looks of the mingling and the macking occurring inside, it surely does.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹1548

n.²int.?1577

n.³1894

n.⁴1911

adj.c1330

v.1887

单词	mack
释义	† mackn.¹ Forms: 1500s macke, 1500s–1600s mack. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymology: Origin uncertain. If the game is the same as Irish adj. 3, then perhaps identical with Mac n.¹; compare also macham n.The suggestion of S. W. Singer in Researches into Hist. Playing Cards (1816) 261, ‘that it is the same with the old French Jeu de Macao ’ (i.e. macao n.) seems unlikely in view of the dating. Obsolete. An early modern game played in alehouses and elsewhere, perhaps Irish (Irish adj. 3) or a card game. Often linked alliteratively with maw n.⁴ ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > others laugh and lie down1522 mack1548 decoyc1555 pinionc1557 to beat the knave out of doors1570 imperial1577 prima vista1587 loadum1591 flush1598 prime1598 thirty-perforce1599 gresco1605 hole1621 my sow's pigged1621 slam1621 fox-mine-host1622 whipperginnie1622 crimpa1637 hundred1636 pinache1641 sequence1653 lady's hole1658 quebas1668 art of memory1674 costly colours1674 penneech1674 plain dealing1674 wit and reason1680 comet1685 lansquenet1687 incertain1689 macham1689 uptails1694 quinze1714 hoc1730 commerce1732 matrimonya1743 tredrille1764 Tom come tickle me1769 tresette1785 snitch'ems1798 tontine1798 blind hazard1816 all fives1838 short cards1845 blind hookey1852 sixty-six1857 skin the lamb1864 brisque1870 handicap1870 manille1874 forty-five1875 slobberhannes1877 fifteen1884 Black Maria1885 slapjack1887 seven-and-a-half1895 pit1904 Russian Bank1915 red dog1919 fan-tan1923 Pelmanism1923 Slippery Sam1923 go fish1933 Russian Banker1937 racing demon1938 pit-a-pat1947 scopa1965 1548 W. Forrest Pleasaunt Poesye 221 in T. Starkey Eng. in Reign King Henry VIII (1878) i. p. xci At ale howse too sitt at mack or at mall. 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie Pref. Verse sig. B.ij To checke at Chesse, to heaue at Maw, at Macke to passe the time. ?1593 H. Chettle Kind-harts Dreame F1 Macke, Maw, Ruffe, Noddy, and Trumpe. 1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. xlvi. 219 Hence arrant Preachers, humming out a common-place or two, With bad, ill, naught, Pope, pots, play, mack, keeping of fowle adoe. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2020). mackn.²int. Brit. /mak/, U.S. /mæk/ Forms: 1500s meke, 1500s–1600s mack, 1500s–1600s macke; English regional 1800s– mack, 1800s– macks, 1800s– mak, 1800s– makk, 1800s– moek. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: English mass. Etymology: Euphemistic alteration of mass (see mass n.¹ 4a); compare also mackins n., matte n.¹, and Eng. Dial. Dict. s.vv. mack(s n., meaks int., megs n. For the substitution of final (c)k compare cock n.⁶ English regional (northern) in later use. In by (the) mack!: expressing asseveration. Also simply mack! (as int.). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > religious oaths (referring to God) > (originally) with reference to mass by the massc1404 by the mattea1556 by (the) mackins!?1577 mack!?1577 mass!?1592 by the maskins!1611 ?1577 Misogonus in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Ital. (1911) 244 Bith meke Isbell. 1599 Sir John Oldcastle (1600) C 4 Now by the macke, a prettie wench indeed. 1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor iii. i. sig. F3^v Humor? macke, I thinke it bee so indeed. View more context for this quotation 1638 N. Whiting Le Hore di Recreatione (new ed.) 130 Is not my daughter Maudge as fine a mayd, And yet, by mack, you see she troules the bowle. 1664 C. Cotton Scarronides 105 By th' Mack. 1857 J. T. Staton Bobby Shuttle 34 By th' mack, hoo says, but there'd need no Main Liquour Law. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mackn.³ Brit. /mak/, U.S. /mæk/ Forms: 1800s– mac, 1800s– mack, 1900s– maque. Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Or (ii) a borrowing from French. Etymons: mackerel n.²; French maquereau. Etymology: Shortened either < mackerel n.², or independently < French maquereau (see mackerel n.²). Compare slightly earlier mack v., and maquereau n. slang. 1. A pimp, a pander. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > pimping or procuring > procurer of either sex > pimp putourc1390 panderc1450 mitchera1500 apple-squire?1536 squire of dames or ladies1590 apron-squire1593 bed-broker1594 pimp1600 pippin squire1600 petticoat-monger1605 smockster1608 underputter1608 broker-between1609 squire of the placket1611 squire1612 fleshmongera1616 cock bawd1632 whiskin1632 pimp-whiskin1638 bully1675 foot pimp1690 mutton-broker1694 pimp whisk1707 flash-man1789 panderer1826 bludger1856 whoremaster1864 mack1894 lover1904 jelly bean1905 procureur1910 P.I.1928 sweetback1929 sweet man1942 nookie-bookie1943 papasan1970 1894 W. T. Stead If Christ came to Chicago 372 The procurers, the souteneurs and the ‘macs’. 1926 G. H. Maines & B. Grant Wise-crack Dict. 11/1 Mac, man who lives off the earnings of a woman. 1931 G. Irwin Amer. Tramp & Underworld Slang 125 Mac, a pander; a lover or associate of lewd women. No doubt from the French word for this class, ‘maqereau’.., although the shorter word has been in use in America for years. 1950 R. P. Blesh & H. Janis They all played Ragtime (1958) ii. 39 The dapper, foppish ‘macks’..in their Stetsons, box-back coats, and St. Louis ‘flat’ shoes got their gambling stakes from the girls. 1951 M. C. Morgan Skid Road iv. 180 The Skid Road maques herded their protégés to the city hall and registered them en masse... A spokesman..complained querulously that ‘a steady stream of fallen women are appearing to register’. 1972 T. Kochman Rappin' & Stylin' Out 243 ‘Pimp’, or ‘mack man’..a person of considerable status in the street hierarchy, who, by his lively and persuasive rapping (‘macking’ is also used in this context), has acquired a stable of girls to hustle for him and give him money. 1992 Vibe Fall (Preview Issue) 31/2 Dancehall don Super Cat gets busy chatting about how dope peewee pimps Kris Kross are on the ‘Super Cat Dessork Mix’ of ‘Jump’ but there's no sign of the self-professed preteen macks themselves. 2. a. U.S. slang (chiefly in African-American usage). A deceptive and convincing speaker; (also, frequently with the) flattering or ‘smooth’ talk, usually with the aim of seduction. ΚΠ 1973 C. Milner & R. Milner Black Players (new ed.) 31 The initial line a pimp uses in recruiting a girl is often referred to as Mack or Mack talk. 1976 in D. Wepman et al. Life 45 She's [sc. a prostitute] a cold-blooded mack from a long way back. 1980 E. A. Folb Runnin' down some Lines 245 Mack, the, seductive, manipulative talk aimed at winning favor with a member of the opposite sex. 1990 ‘Ice Cube’ Who's the Mack? (song) in L. A. Stanley Rap: the Lyrics (1992) 161 Who's the mack?.. You crack a smile When he tell you that he can make you go buck wild. 1998 Indianapolis Recorder (Electronic ed.) 5 June b1 Also at half-time was a ‘Mac’ contest. Two men and women were selected from the audience by Chris Spencer and Lisa Raye to see who could come up with the best pick-up line. b. slang (originally and chiefly U.S., esp. in African-American usage). A successful, respected, or influential person; spec. a man admired for his sexual or romantic success with women, a playboy.Quot. 1990 is from a song that explicitly rejects the claims of a pimp and a ‘smooth talker’ to be regarded as a mack in favour of this more positive sense. Cf. quot. 1990 at sense 2a, in which the sense implying deception is only used in order to be superseded by the sense exemplified below. ΚΠ 1990 ‘Ice Cube’ Who's the Mack? (song) in L. A. Stanley Rap: the Lyrics (1992) 162 You know that I'm a Mack in my own right When it comes to rhyme and rap 'cos all I do is kick facts Unlike Iceberg Slimm and all of them be claimin' be P. I. M. P. 1994 in C. Long Love Awaits 32 We don't like a man who thinks he's Mr Casanova-get-over. He's the Mack, has everything and knows everything. 1997 in P. Munro U.C.L.A. Slang 3 88 Tom Cruise is a mack—every girl I know would die to go out with him. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022). Mackn.⁴ Brit. /mak/, U.S. /mæk/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Mack. Etymology: < the name of the Mack Brothers Company, New York (later the Mack Brothers Motor Car Company of Allentown, Pennsylvania), manufacturer of motor vehicles (established in 1901). Chiefly North American (originally U.S.). A proprietary name for: any of several types of heavy vehicle, as lorries, tractors, etc. Esp. in Mack truck. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor lorry, truck, or van > [noun] Mack1911 1911 Sci. Amer. 13 May 496 (advt.) They ordered 38 ‘Mack’ trucks after investigating all. 1913 Hand Bk. Gasoline Automobiles (U.S. Automobile Board of Trade) 165 (caption) Mack 2-ton truck. 1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel v. 401 Charley..started to help clean the parts of the carburetor of a Mack truck. 1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 114 Mack, a ten-ton lorry. (Army.) 1959 E. K. Wenlock Kitchin's Road Transport Law (ed. 12) 85/1 Mack type N.M. heavy artillery tractors may be used for snow ploughing, or grit or salt distribution on frosty roads, notwithstanding their excess width. 1962 Times 27 Nov. 13/3 A fleet of ‘Macks’—snow-shifters. 1971 M. Tak Truck Talk 103 Mack, a popular, economical and long-wearing make of tractor, the one best known to the public... The Mack engine has a characteristic sound... The Mack trademark is a bulldog. 1972 P. J. Marshall & D. Bishop Lorries, Trucks & Vans 123 No other name can surely be more autonomous with the US truck industry than Mack. ‘Built like a Mack’ is still a phrase used by Americans to signify something solid or sturdy. 1989 A. Stoddard Living beautifully Together (1991) i. 104 An acquaintance was in an automobile accident and miraculously survived what looked like a totally wrecked car that a Mack truck had hit broadside. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † mackadj. Forms: Middle English mak, Middle English make; Scottish pre-1700 1700s–1800s mack, 1800s mak. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Or (ii) a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: English gemæc. Etymology: Either < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic makr (found in comparative and superlative only) tractable, suitable, becoming (Icelandic makur suitable, becoming), Faroese makur calm, tranquil, Norwegian (Nynorsk) mak calm, placid, agreeable, Swedish (regional) mak calm, placid, agreeable; cognate with Middle Dutch mac calm, tame (Dutch mak ), Middle Low German mak calm, tame, weak); or aphetic < the closely related Old English gemæc equal, cognate with Middle Dutch gemac pleasant, quiet, Middle Low German gemak , Old High German gimah fit (Middle High German gemach pleasant, German gemach easy, leisurely). Compare i-make n., match n.¹ See Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. make n.¹ for northern English mack and mackish ; see also mackly adv. and unmackly adj.Old English mæc ‘well-matched, equal, agreeable’ is recorded by Bosworth-Toller as attested in Anglo-Saxon Chron. MS. A. ann. 937, but modern editors regard the reading of MS. A. (mæcan) as an error for either mæca ‘of swords’ (after MS. C. meca) or mecga ‘of men’ (the reading of MS. D.). Scottish in later use. Obsolete. a. Fitting, suitable; seemly. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [adjective] goodeOE rightOE queemlOE belonglOE behovingc1175 limplyc1200 tidefula1300 avenantc1300 mackc1330 worthy1340 hemea1350 convenientc1374 seemlya1375 shapelyc1374 ablea1382 cordant1382 meetc1385 accordable1386 accordinga1387 appurtenantc1386 pertinentc1390 accordanta1393 likea1393 setea1400 throa1400 agreeablec1425 habilec1425 suitly1426 competentc1430 suiting1431 fitc1440 proportionablec1443 justc1450 congruent?a1475 cordinga1475 congruec1475 afferant1480 belonging1483 cordable1485 hovable1508 attainanta1513 accommodate1525 agreeing1533 respondent1533 opportunate?1541 appropriate1544 commode1549 familiar1553 apt1563 pliant1565 liable1570 sortly1570 competible1586 sortable1586 fitty1589 accommodable1592 congruable1603 affining1606 feated1606 suity1607 reputable1611 suited1613 idoneousa1615 matchable1614 suitablea1616 congruous1631 fitten1642 responsal1647 appropriated1651 adapt1658 mack-like1672 squared1698 homogeneous1708 applicable1711 unforeign1718 fitted1736 congenial1738 assorted1790 accommodatable1874 OK1925 c1330 Body & Soul (Auch.) (1889) 42 (MED) Or whare ȝede ich vp and doun, Þat y no bare þe at mi bac, And was þine hors fram toun to toun At eueri stede ymake þe mak? Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 321 Make [a1500 King's Cambr. Mak], or fyt, and mete, aptus, conveniens. b. Neat, tidy. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > [adjective] > tidy queemc1450 trig1513 trimc1521 neat1594 polite1602 terse1602 unlittered1612 ship-shape1644 snod1717 tight1720 redd1753 (as) neat (also clean) as a (new) pin1769 mack1825 tidy1828 slick1833 ship-shapely1843 trimly1858 taut1870 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Mack, Mak, neat, tidy. Derivatives mack-like adj. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [adjective] goodeOE rightOE queemlOE belonglOE behovingc1175 limplyc1200 tidefula1300 avenantc1300 mackc1330 worthy1340 hemea1350 convenientc1374 seemlya1375 shapelyc1374 ablea1382 cordant1382 meetc1385 accordable1386 accordinga1387 appurtenantc1386 pertinentc1390 accordanta1393 likea1393 setea1400 throa1400 agreeablec1425 habilec1425 suitly1426 competentc1430 suiting1431 fitc1440 proportionablec1443 justc1450 congruent?a1475 cordinga1475 congruec1475 afferant1480 belonging1483 cordable1485 hovable1508 attainanta1513 accommodate1525 agreeing1533 respondent1533 opportunate?1541 appropriate1544 commode1549 familiar1553 apt1563 pliant1565 liable1570 sortly1570 competible1586 sortable1586 fitty1589 accommodable1592 congruable1603 affining1606 feated1606 suity1607 reputable1611 suited1613 idoneousa1615 matchable1614 suitablea1616 congruous1631 fitten1642 responsal1647 appropriated1651 adapt1658 mack-like1672 squared1698 homogeneous1708 applicable1711 unforeign1718 fitted1736 congenial1738 assorted1790 accommodatable1874 OK1925 1672 M. Bruce Rattling Dry Bones 6 For as unhappie like as they looked, yet O but our Master makes them look mack like when once he puts hand among them. 1822 J. Hogg Three Perils of Man II. 70 It would be far mair mack-like, and far mair feasible, to send yon great clan o' ratten-nos'd chaps to help our master, than to have them lying idle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2021). mackv. Brit. /mak/, U.S. /mæk/ Forms: 1800s– mack, 1900s– mac. Origin: Probably formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mack n.³ Etymology: Probably < mack n.³, although attested slightly earlier. U.S. slang (chiefly in African-American usage). 1. intransitive. To be or act as a pimp. ΚΠ 1887 W. E. Henley Villon's Straight Tip 10 Fiddle, or fence, or mace, or mack. 1971 Who took Weight? 160 I was sho'nuff macking. I had nine..whores. 1976 in D. Wepman et al. Life 165 Your broad..starts signifying about your not having a license to mack. 2. a. intransitive. Usually of a man (originally a pimp): to speak flatteringly or deceptively, esp. in order to impress or seduce; (also) to make a sexual advance, to flirt. Also with on. ΚΠ 1969 [see macking n. at Derivatives]. 1970 T. Wolfe Radical Chic & Mau-mauing Flak Catchers 101 I don't want you women to be macking with the brothers if they ain't tending to business. 1989 ‘Too Short’ Freaky Tales (song) in L. A. Stanley Rap: the Lyrics (1992) 347 Mack on baby like an ice-cold vet Everything she had is what I get. 1997 Touch May 22/2 That's enough about Elo..who I met macking at the party. b. transitive. Usually of a man: to seduce, make a sexual advance to, flirt with.J. E. Lighter Hist. Dict. Amer. Slang (1997) II. 493 records an oral use from 1974 at the University of Tennessee. ΚΠ 1993 P. Munro U.C.L.A. Slang II. 57 He's trying to mac her. 1995 URB Dec. 112/1 SF/Oakland ain't just about mobbin' in your ride, mackin' hoes and getting ya scrilla on. 2001 Jet 19 Mar. 60/1 Although much of the action centers around..the..basketball court and the bedroom, the film is about more than just a bunch of guys shooting hoops and macking women. Derivatives ˈmacking n. ΚΠ 1969 T. Kochmann in Trans-action Feb. 27/1 The pimp..by his lively and persuasive rapping (‘macking’ is also used in this context) has acquired a stable of girls. 1998 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 2 July f42 A place to potentially meet a mate—could it possibly still exist? By the looks of the mingling and the macking occurring inside, it surely does. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1548n.²int.?1577n.³1894n.⁴1911adj.c1330v.1887
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