MICKEY

Paddy, Mick, Mickey

(noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Irish descent

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

mickey (plural mickeys)

(chiefly, Canada, informal) A small bottle of liquor, holding 375 ml or 13 oz, typically shaped to fit in one's pocket. [from the 1910s]

(US, slang) A Mickey Finn; a beverage, usually alcoholic, that has been drugged. [from the 1930s]

(US, slang) American depression era term for a potato as in a "roasted mickey". [from the 1930s]

(chiefly, Ireland, informal) The penis. [from the 1900s]

(AU, NZ, Ireland, informal) The vagina. [from the early 1900s]

(AU, informal) A well-known honeyeater, the Noisy Miner, Manorina melanocephala, of eastern Australia. [from the 1910s]

(rural Australia, informal) A young bull, especially one that is unbranded and running wild. [from the 1870s]

(Cockney rhyming slang) piss, shortened and more commonly used form of Mickey Bliss.

(computing) The resolution of a mouse, used as a unit of length.

Verb

mickey (third-person singular simple present mickeys, present participle mickeying, simple past and past participle mickeyed)

To secretly slip drugs into somebody's drink.

Noun

Mickey (plural Mickeys)

(slang) A Mickey Finn; a beverage, usually alcoholic, that has been drugged.

(Canada) A 375-milliliter (13.2 imperial fluid ounce; 12.7 US fl oz) bottle of liquor, such as whiskey.

(Ulster, derogatory) a Catholic

Proper noun

Mickey

A diminutive of the male given names Michael, Mike or Mick.

A diminutive of the female given name Michaela.

Source: Wiktionary



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