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mickey¹
- /ˈmɪki/ US, UK
Rhymes with -ɪki
Where it comes from
Alternative letter-case form of Mickey (noun), from Mickey (“diminutive of the male given name Michael”, proper noun), from Mick (“diminutive of the male given name Michael”) + -ey (a variant of -y (diminutive suffix)).
Noun sense 1 (“smallest distance that a computer mouse can move a cursor”) refers to the cartoon character Mickey Mouse.
Noun sense 5 (“penis”), noun sense 7.1 (“Irishman”), and noun sense 7.2 (“potato; sweet potato”) refer to the fact that since the 17th century Michael and its diminutives Mick, Mickey, and Mike have been one of the most common names in Ireland, and to the prevalence of potatoes in the Irish diet; compare murphy (“potato”).
Noun sense 6.2 (“in take the mickey: (false) pride”) possibly refers to the use of Mickey Bliss as rhyming slang for piss (“act of urinating”); compare take the piss and noun sense 6.1.
The adjective is short for Mickey Mouse, which is rhyming slang for grouse (“(Australia, New Zealand, slang) excellent”).
The verb is short for mickey-finn, from Mickey Finn; compare noun sense 7.3.
noun mickeys
- The smallest distance that a computer mouse can move a cursor on a screen, which is used to measure the device's resolution or sensitivity. The Mmove_ratio method controls the ratio of physical mouse movement to screen cursor movement with the x- and y-axis arguments (xsize and ysize) expressed as the number of mickeys (units of mouse motion) required to cover eight pixels on the screen. […] [T]he appropriate values are dependent on the
- The noisy miner (Manorina melanocephala), a honeyeater endemic to eastern and southeastern Australia.
- A young bull, especially one which is unbranded and running wild; a bullock. The cattle slayers had gone their way, with their smoking rifles and the mob of "mickies" they intended, somewhere in the fastnesses of the ranges, to brand and make legally, as far as the letter of the law went, their own.
- The vulva. Can't blame her for it, 'cause her mickey was probably throbbin' for it.
- A small bottle of liquor, such as whiskey, usually holding 375 millilitres (13.2 imperial fluid ounces; 12.7 U.S. fluid ounces), typically shaped to fit in one's pocket. While you’re at the liquor store, get a mickey of rye.
- The penis. He fell off the bike and injured his mickey.
- Short for Mickey Bliss (“an act of urinating; a piss”).
- In take the mickey: a person's (false) pride, which is criticized through disparagement or ridicule; piss. 'Higgsy,' said the sergeant, 'they think I'm taking the mickey. Tell 'em.'
- Alternative letter-case form of Mickey (“an Irishman”). There was an old micky named Cassidy / who was famed for impromptu mendacity. / When asked did he lie / he replied: to reply / would be to impugn his veracity.
- A potato or sweet potato; specifically, one roasted over a fire outdoors. We roasted mickeys over a fire with two-foot sticks.
- Alternative letter-case form of Mickey (“a Mickey Finn: an alcoholic drink deliberately doctored with a drug intended to quickly render the drinker unconscious”). He was slipped a mickey.
adjective more mickey · most mickey
- Short for Mickey Mouse (“excellent, grouse”).
verb mickeys · mickeying · mickeyed
- Sometimes followed by up: short for mickey-finn (“to drug (someone) with a Mickey Finn (“an alcoholic or non-alcoholic drink deliberately doctored with a drug intended to quickly render the drinker unconscious”); to secretly put a drug into (someone's drink) to render them unconscious”). Sam said he hadn't mickeyed me. That meant that he had either prepared a mickey at someone else's order, without knowing for whom it was intended, or he had seen someone else do the concocting.
Mickey²
- /ˈmɪki/ US, UK
Rhymes with -ɪki
Where it comes from
The proper noun is derived from Mick (“diminutive of the male given name Michael”) + -ey (a variant of -y (diminutive suffix)).
The common noun is derived from the proper noun. Noun senses 1 (“Mickey Mouse cartoon”) and 3.2 (“type of bombsight assisted by radar”) are short forms of Mickey Mouse. Noun sense 2 (“synonym of Mick”) refers to the fact that since the 17th century Michael and its diminutives Mick, Mickey, and Mike have been one of the most common names in Ireland, and that many Irish people are Roman Catholic. Noun sense 3.1 is a short form of Mickey Finn.
proper noun Micky
- A diminutive of the male given name Michael.
- A diminutive of the female given names Michaela and Michelle.
noun Mickeys · Micky · mickey
- A Mickey Mouse cartoon.
- A Roman Catholic person.
- An Irishman. National identity and ethnic origin mapped gang territory: ‘Little Italy’; ‘Little Sicily’; ‘Polish colony’; […] ‘Mickies’ (Irish). Each possessed demarcated districts within which gangs adopted neighbourhood names and tags […]
- Short for Mickey Finn (“an alcoholic or non-alcoholic drink deliberately doctored with a drug intended to quickly render the drinker unconscious”).
- A type of bombsight assisted by radar.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: paddy, mick, potato, mousing, golgi, mike, mitch, come, finn, hey, micky, mikey, archie, miki, mckay, mickie
Translations
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