Meanings
nounMactard (plural Mactards)
plural Mactards
- InternetderogatoryoffensivevulgarOne who uses and uncritically advocates Macintosh computers.
Lyle is also a Mactard who should have learned his lesson from the last book.
2002 May 17, geek_girl, “Re: My little Bromo rant”, in misc.fitness.weights (Usenet)2 more examples
> Because any 'tard can manage to download stuff off of Kazaa. Except us Mactards.
2003 July 20, Tonawanda Kardex, “Re: OT Recording industry on attack”, in alt.sports.basketball.nba.la-lakers (Usenet)BTW, you Mactards keep claiming Mac is a Unix (which it isn't), so....when will you Unix guys settle on one "distro"?
2005 June 14, Liam Slider, “Re: Linux Dev switching to OS X,Mac?”, in comp.sys.mac.advocacy (Usenet)
Origin
- Proto-Celtic*makkʷos
- Old Irishmacc
- Middle Irishmac
- Scottish Gaelicmac
- Scottish Gaelican
- Proto-Celtic*to-
- Proto-Indo-European*weyd-
- Proto-Indo-European*wéydtus
- Proto-Celtic*wissus
- Proto-Celtic*towissus
- Proto-Celtic*towissākos
- Old Irishtoísech
- Scottish Gaelictòisiche
- Scottish GaelicMac an Tòisiche
- EnglishMcIntosh
- EnglishMacintosh
- EnglishMac
- Proto-Italic*wre-
- Latinre-
- Proto-Indo-European*terh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*tr̥h₂dos
- Proto-Italic*tardos
- Latintardus
- Latinretardō
- Anglo-Normanretarder
- Middle Englishretarden
- Englishretard
- EnglishMactard
From Mac (“a Macintosh computer”) + -tard.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
APA
Mactard. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mactard
MLA
“Mactard.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mactard. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Mactard,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mactard.
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