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mackay
/məˈkeɪ/
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What does mackay mean?
proper noun
- A surname, alternative form of MacKay.
- A city and local government area (Mackay Region) in northern Queensland, Australia.
- A town in Custer County, Idaho, United States.
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proper noun
- A surname.
- A locality in Yellowhead County, Alberta, Canada.
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IPA pronunciation
/məˈkeɪ/
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Our Landlady, by name Mrs. Mackay, is a nice clean old body--exceedingly civil and attentive.
And many times by the roadside Mackay saw something that reminded him forcibly of why he had come to Formosa--a heathen shrine.
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Meanwhile the other party, composed of Professor David, Mawson, and Mackay, had set off to determine the position of the South Magnetic Pole.
As Dr. Mackay has remarked, in all the woeful annals of the witch-persecutions, there is nothing so astounding and revolting as the burning and putting to death of mere children for practising the arts of the devil.
He was a good pedestrian; at the age of fifty-eight I find him covering seventeen miles over the moors of the Mackay country in less than seven hours, and that is not bad travelling for a scramble.