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adj
Short for Mickey Mouse (“excellent, grouse”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, abbreviation, alt-of, informal
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name
A diminutive of the male given name Michael.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A diminutive of the female given names Michaela or Michelle.
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
The noisy miner (Manorina melanocephala), a honeyeater endemic to eastern and southeastern Australia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, informal
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noun
A young bull, especially one which is unbranded and running wild; a bullock.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, slang
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noun
The vulva.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, rare, slang
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, informal
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noun
The penis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, slang
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noun
Short for Mickey Bliss (“an act of urinating; a piss”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Cockney, UK, abbreviation, alt-of, slang
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noun
In take the mickey: a person's (false) pride, which is criticized through disparagement or ridicule; piss.
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Usage: UK, informal
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of Mickey (“an Irishman”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, alt-of, derogatory, offensive, slang
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noun
A potato or sweet potato; specifically, one roasted over a fire outdoors.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-York-City, US, dated, slang
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of Mickey (“a Mickey Finn: an alcoholic drink deliberately doctored with a drug intended to quickly render the drinker unconscious”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, alt-of, slang
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noun
A Mickey Mouse cartoon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, rare
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noun
Synonym of Mick.
A Roman Catholic person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, offensive, slang
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noun
Synonym of Mick.
An Irishman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, derogatory, offensive, slang
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noun
Short for Mickey Finn (“an alcoholic or non-alcoholic drink deliberately doctored with a drug intended to quickly render the drinker unconscious”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, slang
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noun
A type of bombsight assisted by radar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, slang
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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verb
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”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
(ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Irish descent
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Paddy, Mick
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Broader terms: Irishman
History
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.
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.
Across languages
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