Meanings
nounMcCooey (plural McCooeys)
plural McCooeys
- A surname, of Irish origin
- AustraliaA naturalist, from H.J. McCooey
Joe was a born naturalist—a perfect McCooey in his way, and a close observer of the habits and customs of animals and living things.
1899, Steele Rudd, chapter 11, in On Our Selection, Sydney: Bulletin
Origin
Possible Anglicisation of Irish Gaelic Mac Cumhaighe (“son of the hound of the plain”).
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