Unnumbered source etymology
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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname.
Irish and Manx surname, Anglicized from Ó Cuirc (“descendant of Corc”), a personal name derived from curc (“tuft of hair”). It was sometimes Anglicized as Oates due to an erroneous association with coirce (“oats”). Sometimes also a shortened variant of McGuirk.
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