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McHouse
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English
Etymology
From en Mc- derogatory house; 1990s.
Noun
en humorous informal A large, expensive, generic house.
en 1994-06-09 den...@extsparc.agsci.usu.edu Housewives alt.angst https://groups.google.com/g/alt.angst/c/k2MPW9OWgfs/m/k7YXZcDc4E4J Anyplace where a McHouse costs $350,000 and two fully employed people can't afford one is economically out of hand.
en http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/05/14/kunstler/index_np.html Salon You can quote me: Americans will vote for cornpone Nazis before they will give up their entitlements to a McHouse and a McCar. After the oil is gone 2005-05-14 Katharine Mieszkowski 2025-07-28 https://web.archive.org/web/20120617144823/http://www.salon.com/2005/05/14/kunstler/ 2012-06-17
en Watching Babylon Poor-quality employment was referred to in the 1990s as a McJob, while the large-sized off-the-shelf house design of the period became known as a McHouse. Nicholas Mirzoeff 71 2005 9781134290956 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Watching_Babylon/iSvqceHR7QAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA71&printsec=frontcover
Related terms
en McMansion
en terms with consonant pseudo-digraphs