Wac

English

Etymology

Initialism of Women's Army Corps.

Noun

Wac (plural Wacs)

1. (US, slang, historical) A member of the Women's Army Corps, the women's branch of the United States Army from 1942-1978.
   • 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 172:

     I stepped out of my tent in Marrakech one night to get a bar of candy and caught your dose of clap when that Wac I never even saw before hissed me into the bushes.

Polish

Etymology

From Wacław.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvat͡s/
• Rhymes: -at͡s
• Syllabification: Wac

Proper noun

Wac m pers

1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Wac

	singular	plural
nominative	Wac	Wacowie
genitive	Waca	Waców
dative	Wacowi	Wacom
accusative	Waca	Waców
instrumental	Wacem	Wacami
locative	Wacu	Wacach
vocative	Wacu	Wacowie

Proper noun

Wac f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname

Further reading

• “Wac”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022