McCarthy

English

Alternative forms

• Mc Carthy, Mccarthy, MacCarthy, Mac Carthy, Maccarthy, M'Carthy, MaCarthy, Macarthy, Carthy
• McCarty

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish Mac Carthaigh (literally “son of Carthach”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /məˈkɑː.θi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /məˈkɑɹ.θi/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)θi

Proper noun

McCarthy (countable and uncountable, plural McCarthys or McCarthies)

1. A surname from Irish.
   • 1998 October 11, Laurie Goodstein, “Miracle in Massachusetts Qualified Stein for Sainthood”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     The McCarthys say they did not wish to publicize the incident, but the Catholic newspaper in Maine heard about it and wrote an article.

   • 2019, Joe Trotta, Zlatan Filipovic, Houman Sadri, Broken Mirrors, page 1995:

     Life is finally loose, one could say, liberated from its social constrains and sincere in its necessities, its insistence and its arrogative demands, but McCarthy also reveals the implications of life's liberation and, by the same token, unmasks any misplaced romanticisations regarding its disavowal in the polis:

2. A census-designated place in Copper River Census Area, Alaska, United States.

Derived terms

• Charlie McCarthy
• McCarthian, McCarthyan
• McCarthyesque
• McCarthyism
• McCarthyist
• McCarthyistic
• McCarthy's shrew

Translations

surname

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 麥卡錫 / 麦卡锡 (Màikǎxí)

• Japanese: マッカーシー (Makkāshī)
• Russian: Макка́рти (ru) (Makkárti)