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▪ I. micky1|ˈmɪkɪ|
[Applications of Micky, familiarly used for Michael. Cf. Mick1, Mike n.4]
1. Australian slang. A young wild bull. Also mick.
1881A. C. Grant Bush-life in Queensland xvi. (1882) 165 There are three or four Mickies and wild heifers. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer xviii. II. 98 The wary..‘Micky’, a two-year-old bull. 1934Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Aug. 46/3, I lifted nearly two hundred Poolpee micks on my way back and took 'em home with me. 1958Amer. Speech XXXIII. 167 Mickey, maverick, a wild young bull. 1966Baker Austral. Lang. (ed. 2) iii. 63 Micky or mick, an unbranded steer, perhaps from the Aboriginal micky, quick.
2. U.S. slang. An Irishman.
1858J. D. Lovett in Harvard Mag. July 267 While Mickey there stands, A-wringin' his hands, And Biddy is wipin' her eyes on her slave. 1890Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang, Mickey.
3. Austral. A honeyeater, Myzantha melanocephala.
1911J. A. Leach Austral. Bird Bk. 173 Noisy Miner, Garrulous Honeyeater, Snake-Bird, Cherry-eater, Soldier, Micky, Squeaker, Myzantha garrula. 1931N. W. Cayley What Bird is That? 81 Noisy Miner Myzantha melanocephala... Also called..Soldier-bird, Micky, and Squeaker. In small parties, frequenting open forest country and partly cleared lands. 1971Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 24 July 12/8 Mickeys, or Soldier Birds, or Noisy Miners, are great little fighters and battle the hawks, crows and goannas quite fearlessly.
4. Chiefly Canad. colloq. A flask of liquor.
1914Jackson & Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 58 Micky, current amongst bottle drinkers. A corruption of Michael..a flask of liquor. 1926J. Black You can't Win vi. 66 A four-bit micky, a fifty-cent bottle of alcohol. 1935A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 76/1 Mickey, half pint of bootleg whiskey. 1950H. Sutton Footloose in Canada 5 An American pint holds 16 ounces, a Canadian ‘mickey’, 12 ounces of rye, or 13 ounces of Scotch. 1971Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 21 Mar. 16/2 Mark, the public nuisance that he was, bought his liquor in mickeys that he hid in the woodpile around the cannery. 1972Regional Lang. Stud.—Newfoundland iv. 11 Flask is used in the Atlantic provinces only. In central and western Canada this would be a micky.
5. slang. The penis. rare.
1922Joyce Ulysses 765 Ill put on my best shift and drawers let him have a good eyeful out of that to make his micky stand for him.
6. Colloq. phr. to take the micky (out of) (someone): to act in a satirical, disrespectful, or teasing manner (towards). Cf. mike n.6 Hence micky-take v. and n., micky-taking ppl. a. and vbl. n.
The more usual spelling of this sense is ‘mickey’.
1952‘J. Henry’ Who lie in Gaol iv. 66 She's a terror. I expect she'll try and take the mickey out of you all right. Don't you stand for nothin'. 1954A. Heckstall-Smith Eighteen Months xi. 136 For a while everyone tried to take ‘the Micky’ out of Bobbie, but they soon gave up trying after the first foolish failure. Then their ridicule turned to admiration. 1956A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Att. ii. i. 206 ‘You're not going to take the mickey out of me, Vin Salad, I'll spatter you,’ he cried. 1957L. P. Hartley Hireling 134 He had no great regard for Constance, except in so far as she sometimes took the mickey out of Hughie. 1958Observer 28 Dec. 3/1 ‘Tonight’ is not only a tough and irreverent programme, but glib and smart and anxious to take the mickey. 1959R. Storey Touch it Light in Plays of Year XVIII. 419 You don't stop at nothing, do you? As long as you can take the mickey. Mr. Funnyman, that's you. At any price. 1959Oxford Mail 13 June 6/3 This modern dress, mickey-taking version of Aristophanes. 1959Vogue Dec. 101 They'd think you were a nutter and laugh and mickey-take. 1960E. W. Hildick Jim Starling & Colonel ix. 76 The servers must have thought that no boy would dare to take the mickey in such circumstances. 1962Times 20 July 10/6 The micky-taking ways of their own brand of insolent wise-cracking. 1965Listener 25 Mar. 451/2 Those ‘fruits’ don't like people trying to, how do you say, take the mickey. 1967Spectator 3 Nov. 535/2 One looks forward after reading this brilliant exercise in mickey-taking to Miss Tracy's next novel. 1968J. Lock Lady Policeman ix. 85 He keeps up a barrage of mickey taking. 1968Listener 7 Nov. 622/3 He parried Kenneth Allsop's micky-take. 1971B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 101 Geordie looked anxiously at me, in case I thought he was taking the micky too hard. 1973‘J. Patrick’ Glasgow Gang Observed xiv. 127 Big Sheila indulged in the same sort of ‘mickey-taking’.
▪ II. micky2 N.Z.|ˈmɪkɪ|
Also micky-mick, miki-miki, etc.
Representing a dialectal variant (within the Maori language) of mingimingi.
1898Morris Austral Eng. 294/2 Mingi..in south New Zealand..is often called Micky. 1907‘G. B. Lancaster’ Tracks we Tread Gloss., Mic-a-mic, scrub. 1933Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 25 Nov. 15/7 Scrub..The best known components in Canterbury are Manuka, Wild Irishman Miki-miki (of which the shepherds make walking sticks), and Mountain pine. 1944Mod. Jun. Dict. (Whitcombe & Tombs) 258 Micky-mick, a corrupt form of mingi-mingi, the Maori name of a class of shrubs, one of which makes a good walking-stick. 1949F. Sargeson I saw in My Dream xiv. 229 I'll make a garland for her hair. Out of micky-mick. 1963B. Pearson Coal Flat vii. 122 Willows and the trees they called..mickeymick, mockamock, whiteywood, birch.
▪ III. micky
var. mick3, mick5. |