Mickn.¹

Brit.

/mɪk/, U.S.

/mɪk/

Forms: also with lower-case initial.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Mick.

Etymology: < Mick, pet form of the male forename Michael (see Michael n.). Compare slightly later mickey n.¹According to Oxf. Dict. Christian Names s.v. Michael, ‘The name was not used in Ireland much before the 17th cent., but is now one of the commonest Irish names, often abbreviated to Mick, Micky, or Mike.’ Use of the word was perhaps reinforced by the numerous Irish surnames in Mc-, Mac-.

slang. Usually derogatory.

1. An Irishman. In plural: Irish people, or people of Irish origin, esp. those living in North America.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Irish > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Ireland

IrishmanOE

Ireis1297

hooded mana1464

Mac1518

Irish1553

Teague?1661

bog-trotter1682

Milesian1682

dear joy1688

Teaguelander1689

paddy1714

bog-lander1736

bog-stalkera1758

brogueneer1758

paddywhack1773

Pat1796

West Briton1805

Irisher1807

Patlander1820

Greek1823

Mick1850

redneck1852

Grecian1853

mickeyc1854

Mike1859

harp1904

1850 E. Baker Jrnl. 24 June in Amer. Neptune (1985) 45 183/1 A boat came alongside with a priest on board which one of the ‘uncompressed “micks”’ seeing exclaimed ‘there's no danger now for the priest is coming.’

1856 Butte Record (Oroville, Calif.) 20 Sept. 3/3 One of the ‘bucks’ jerked something from his belt..and made for a Mick.

1882 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents at Home ii When the Micks got to throwing stones through the Methodis' Sunday-school windows.

1894 P. L. Ford Hon. Peter Stirling lvii. 369 Fortunately it's a Mick regiment, so we needn't worry over who was killed.

1913 J. London Valley of Moon 27 They's been too much drink, an' you know what the Micks are for a rough house.

1932 E. Wilson Devil take Hindmost vii. 38 The Communists..have..recruited..a considerable number of seedy unemployed—niggers, micks.

1943 Amer. Speech 18 89 [In New Zealand] a Scotsman is a Geordie, and an Irishman, as in vulgar American, a Mick. These synonyms are also current in Australia.

1970 M. Kenyon 100,000 Welcomes iv. 32 Where's Ireland, huh? Who needs Micks?

1994 P. Hamill Drinking Life ii. viii. 76 What are you?.. American, I said. Irish American... I shoulda figured dat, he said. A fuckin' Mick.

2. Originally and chiefly Australian. A Roman Catholic.

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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > person > [noun]

papist1528

Romanist1534

Roman1537

Romist1543

papistic1545

popestant1549

flesh-maker1551

mass-monger1551

Romish1551

Pope catholicc1554

popeling1563

catholic1570

Romish Catholic1571

popera1577

Pope worshipper1579

papane1581

Roman Catholic1581

Cacolike1582

Cartholic1582

papisha1595

Babylonian1603

papal1611

popinian1613

Papalin1616

Romulist1620

papicolist1633

western1640

papagan1641

universalist1644

red-letter man1677

RC1691

Azymite1728

papalist1752

craw-thumper1786

catholicist1812

papisher1817

pontifical1832

Romanite1839

dogan1847

mickey1851

redneck1852

mackerel-snatcher1855

Latin1867

Romanensian1885

Roman candle1897

Mick1902

Mick Dooley1905

Mickey Doo1905

left-footer1911

Pape1927

right-footer1929

Doolan1940

tyke1941

Tim1958

mackerel-snapper1960

Teague1971

Mickey Doolan1972

1902 Truth (Sydney) 20 July 6/4 He's a tyke. He's a Mick. Chuck him out.

1924 P. Marks Plastic Age 201 I suppose you refer to..my one mick friend, although he isn't Irish.

1948 P. White Aunt's Story 258 He says that Mother is wrong to send a girl to a convent with a lot of micks.

1956 ‘N. Shute’ Beyond Black Stump ii. 57 Stanley and Phyllis went to Church of England schools..but all the rest of us are Micks.

1973 Times 31 July 12/7 On this theory the Council of Ireland can be presented as..‘a place where the Micks and Prods can get together occasionally’ as one Assembly member put it.

1993 Sydney Morning Herald 31 July 29/5 We of the Mick tribe have always prided ourselves that, while we may be considered slow, that apparent failing has had certain advantages.

3. More generally: any person, esp. one whose nationality, occupation, etc., is regarded with contempt.Originally an extended use of sense 1.

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1928 F. S. Fitzgerald in Sat. Evening Post 28 Apr. 4/2 In sordid poverty, below the bluff two hundred feet away, lived the ‘micks’—they had merely inherited the name, for they were now largely of Scandinavian descent.

1937 in E. Partridge Dict. Underworld (1949) 437/2 Mick, a road mechanic.

1941 J. Smiley Hash House Lingo 37 Mick, Englishman.

1958 L. A. G. Strong Light above Lake 94 He's a dismal ould mick of a God.

1974 Amer. Speech 1971 46 81 Mexican: greaser, spick, wetback, mick, halfbreed.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mickn.²

Brit.

/mɪk/, U.S.

/mɪk/

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: mickey n.¹

Etymology: Shortened < mickey n.¹Quot. 1974 at sense 2 shows a punning formation on Mick n.¹ 1 and taker n. 2a; though it appears to suggest the pre-existence of the phrase to take the mick , it may rather be after earlier to take the mickey and its derivatives (compare mickey n.¹ 7, mickey-take v., mickey-taking adj., mickey-taking n.).

1. Australian slang. A bullock; = mickey n.¹ 2.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bull > [noun] > castrated or bullock > with specific features

spark1798

poley1843

mickey1876

snaily1884

mick1894

1894 A. B. Bell Oscar 67 Some few of the wildest mickeys broke away.., only to be tackled by the cattle dogs. One fierce mick, about eighteen months old, became enraged.

1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Aug. 46/3 I lifted nearly two hundred Poolpee micks on my way back and took 'em home with me.

1954 H. G. Lamond Manx Star 260 Mick, an unbranded, fully sexed male animal, adolescent.

1976 C. D. Mills Hobble Chains & Greenhide 145 This bloke's a ‘thick-horn’. Evidently been a mick.

2. colloquial (chiefly British). to take the mick (out of): = to take the mickey (out of) at mickey n.¹ 7.

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1974 Daily Tel. 30 Nov. 28/6 The new anti-IRA Intelligence Unit..has already been nicknamed the ‘Mick-takers’.]

1985 Guardian 13 Sept. 8/1 Conference has during my years become one of the annual media events and I am not sure who is taking the mick out of whom.

1992 Wisden Cricket Monthly (BNC) Aug. 42 Barrington, though, was only being his naturally jolly self. He scarcely knew how to take the mick.

1997 Trail May 10/2 Even outdoor instructors, who carry every bit of emergency gear you could imagine, took the mick out of him.

1999 Sun 26 Oct. 47/3 People see the human side of you when you take the mick out of yourself.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mickn.³

Brit.

/mɪk/, U.S.

/mɪk/, Australian English

/mɪk/, New Zealand English

/mɪk/

Forms: also with capital initial.

Origin: Of unknown origin.

Etymology: Origin unknown. Use with capital initial suggests that the word may have been regarded as < the male forename Mick (see Mick n.¹).

Australian and New Zealand slang.

Esp. in the game of two-up: the reverse side of a coin, the tail. Also (occasionally): the obverse of a coin, the head (see also quot. 1919).

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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > obverse or reverse of coin

pilea1393

cross and pile1584

reverse1605

averse1655

ranverse1656

obverse1658

heads1675

tail1684

endorse1688

woman1785

mazard1802

man1828

mick1918

1918 Aussie: Austral. Soldiers' Mag. Dec. 3/1 They were playing the good old game... Presently, up went two browns in the air. They came down showing two micks.

1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 33 Mick, (1) the Queen's head on a coin... (2) a queen in a pack of cards.

1938 J. Robertson With Cameliers in Palestine xx. 198 ‘A pair of Micks’, which means that the offerings are not accepted.

1953 T. A. G. Hungerford Riverslake 126 ‘Ten bob he tails 'em!’ he intoned,..‘I got ten bob to say he tails 'em—ten bob the micks!’

1977 T. A. G. Hungerford Wong Chu & Queen's Letterbox 56 Ten bob the mick!

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

mickn.⁴

Brit.

/mɪk/, U.S.

/mɪk/

Origin: Apparently formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: hammock n.

Etymology: Apparently shortened < hammock n., reflecting a nonstandard pronunciation of the second syllable of that word.

Nautical slang.

A hammock.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > bed on ship > hammock

hammock1555

mick1929

1929 Papers Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. 10 308/1 Mick, an abridgement of ‘face like a scrubbed hammock’.

1946 J. Irving Royal Navalese 115 Mick, hammock.

1977 G. Melly Rum, Bum & Concertina (1978) xii. 169 The Baron now declared his intention of slinging his mick and crashing the baronial swede.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mickn.⁵

Brit.

/mɪk/, U.S.

/mɪk/

Forms: 1900s– mick, 1900s– mickey, 1900s– micky.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: mike n.³

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < mike n.³ reinterpreted as the male forename Mike (see Mike n.⁴) and subsequently remodelled after Mick (see Mick n.¹) and Mickey, Micky (see mickey n.¹), alternative pet forms of the name Michael (see Michael n.), although compare earlier to take a Mickey Finn at Mickey Finn n. Phrases.

British slang.

to do a mick: to go away, to clear off (see mike n.³).

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)]

wendeOE

i-wite971

ashakec975

shakeOE

to go awayOE

witea1000

afareOE

agoOE

atwendOE

awayOE

to wend awayOE

awendOE

gangOE

rimeOE

flitc1175

to fare forthc1200

depart?c1225

part?c1225

partc1230

to-partc1275

biwitec1300

atwitea1325

withdrawa1325

to draw awayc1330

passc1330

to turn one's (also the) backc1330

lenda1350

begonec1370

remuea1375

voidc1374

removec1380

to long awaya1382

twinc1386

to pass one's wayc1390

trussc1390

waive1390

to pass out ofa1398

avoida1400

to pass awaya1400

to turn awaya1400

slakec1400

wagc1400

returnc1405

to be gonea1425

muck1429

packc1450

recede1450

roomc1450

to show (a person) the feetc1450

to come offc1475

to take one's licence1475

issue1484

devoidc1485

rebatea1500

walka1500

to go adieua1522

pikea1529

to go one's ways1530

retire?1543

avaunt1549

to make out1558

trudge1562

vade?1570

fly1581

leave1593

wag1594

to get off1595

to go off1600

to put off1600

shog1600

troop1600

to forsake patch1602

exit1607

hence1614

to give offa1616

to take off1657

to move off1692

to cut (also slip) the painter1699

sheera1704

to go about one's business1749

mizzle1772

to move out1792

transit1797–1803

stump it1803

to run away1809

quit1811

to clear off1816

to clear out1816

nash1819

fuff1822

to make (take) tracks (for)1824

mosey1829

slope1830

to tail out1830

to walk one's chalks1835

to take away1838

shove1844

trot1847

fade1848

evacuate1849

shag1851

to get up and get1854

to pull out1855

to cut (the) cable(s)1859

to light out1859

to pick up1872

to sling one's Daniel or hook1873

to sling (also take) one's hook1874

smoke1893

screw1896

shoot1897

voetsak1897

to tootle off1902

to ship out1908

to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909

to push off1918

to bugger off1922

biff1923

to fuck off1929

to hit, split or take the breeze1931

to jack off1931

to piss offa1935

to do a mick1937

to take a walk1937

to head off1941

to take a hike1944

moulder1945

to chuff off1947

to get lost1947

to shoot through1947

skidoo1949

to sod off1950

peel1951

bug1952

split1954

poop1961

mugger1962

frig1965

1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 519/1 Mick, do a [equated with do a mike].

1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren x. 192 Sending away,..do a mickey.

1961 S. Chaplin Day of Sardine xi. 225 I laid the ring on the notepaper and did a mickey as soon as I heard the front doorbell go.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mickn.⁶

Brit.

/mɪk/, U.S.

/mɪk/

Forms: 1900s– mick, 1900s– mickey, 1900s– micky.

Origin: Of unknown origin.

Etymology: Origin unknown. Apparently interpreted as showing the male forename Mick (see Mick n.¹) and consequently remodelled after Mickey, Micky (see mickey n.¹), alternative pet forms of the name Michael (see Michael n.).

English regional (Lancashire and Cheshire).

A pigeon, esp. a domestic (or feral) pigeon, or a wood pigeon.

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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Columbidae > pigeon

culverc825

pigeon1375

pigeon1581

cooer1862

mick1940

1940 Notes & Queries 3 Aug. 79/1 Mick was the usual word for a pigeon, especially the domesticated kind [in Cheshire].

1965 Jrnl. Lancs. Dial. Soc. Jan. 7 Woodpigeon..Mick, Micky: Southport, Liverpool.

1966 F. Shaw et al. Lern Yerself Scouse 23 De mickeys are lettin on de roof, the pigeons are alighting on the roof.

1966 ‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 68 Mickey-snatcher, a person who steals municipal pigeons.

1985 K. Howarth Sounds Gradely Mick, a woodpigeon. Southport, Liverpool, Everton.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹1850

n.²1894

n.³1918

n.⁴1929

n.⁵1937

n.⁶1940

单词	mick
释义	Mickn.¹ Brit. /mɪk/, U.S. /mɪk/ Forms: also with lower-case initial. Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Mick. Etymology: < Mick, pet form of the male forename Michael (see Michael n.). Compare slightly later mickey n.¹According to Oxf. Dict. Christian Names s.v. Michael, ‘The name was not used in Ireland much before the 17th cent., but is now one of the commonest Irish names, often abbreviated to Mick, Micky, or Mike.’ Use of the word was perhaps reinforced by the numerous Irish surnames in Mc-, Mac-. slang. Usually derogatory. 1. An Irishman. In plural: Irish people, or people of Irish origin, esp. those living in North America. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Irish > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Ireland IrishmanOE Ireis1297 hooded mana1464 Mac1518 Irish1553 Teague?1661 bog-trotter1682 Milesian1682 dear joy1688 Teaguelander1689 paddy1714 bog-lander1736 bog-stalkera1758 brogueneer1758 paddywhack1773 Pat1796 West Briton1805 Irisher1807 Patlander1820 Greek1823 Mick1850 redneck1852 Grecian1853 mickeyc1854 Mike1859 harp1904 1850 E. Baker Jrnl. 24 June in Amer. Neptune (1985) 45 183/1 A boat came alongside with a priest on board which one of the ‘uncompressed “micks”’ seeing exclaimed ‘there's no danger now for the priest is coming.’ 1856 Butte Record (Oroville, Calif.) 20 Sept. 3/3 One of the ‘bucks’ jerked something from his belt..and made for a Mick. 1882 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents at Home ii When the Micks got to throwing stones through the Methodis' Sunday-school windows. 1894 P. L. Ford Hon. Peter Stirling lvii. 369 Fortunately it's a Mick regiment, so we needn't worry over who was killed. 1913 J. London Valley of Moon 27 They's been too much drink, an' you know what the Micks are for a rough house. 1932 E. Wilson Devil take Hindmost vii. 38 The Communists..have..recruited..a considerable number of seedy unemployed—niggers, micks. 1943 Amer. Speech 18 89 [In New Zealand] a Scotsman is a Geordie, and an Irishman, as in vulgar American, a Mick. These synonyms are also current in Australia. 1970 M. Kenyon 100,000 Welcomes iv. 32 Where's Ireland, huh? Who needs Micks? 1994 P. Hamill Drinking Life ii. viii. 76 What are you?.. American, I said. Irish American... I shoulda figured dat, he said. A fuckin' Mick. 2. Originally and chiefly Australian. A Roman Catholic. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > person > [noun] papist1528 Romanist1534 Roman1537 Romist1543 papistic1545 popestant1549 flesh-maker1551 mass-monger1551 Romish1551 Pope catholicc1554 popeling1563 catholic1570 Romish Catholic1571 popera1577 Pope worshipper1579 papane1581 Roman Catholic1581 Cacolike1582 Cartholic1582 papisha1595 Babylonian1603 papal1611 popinian1613 Papalin1616 Romulist1620 papicolist1633 western1640 papagan1641 universalist1644 red-letter man1677 RC1691 Azymite1728 papalist1752 craw-thumper1786 catholicist1812 papisher1817 pontifical1832 Romanite1839 dogan1847 mickey1851 redneck1852 mackerel-snatcher1855 Latin1867 Romanensian1885 Roman candle1897 Mick1902 Mick Dooley1905 Mickey Doo1905 left-footer1911 Pape1927 right-footer1929 Doolan1940 tyke1941 Tim1958 mackerel-snapper1960 Teague1971 Mickey Doolan1972 1902 Truth (Sydney) 20 July 6/4 He's a tyke. He's a Mick. Chuck him out. 1924 P. Marks Plastic Age 201 I suppose you refer to..my one mick friend, although he isn't Irish. 1948 P. White Aunt's Story 258 He says that Mother is wrong to send a girl to a convent with a lot of micks. 1956 ‘N. Shute’ Beyond Black Stump ii. 57 Stanley and Phyllis went to Church of England schools..but all the rest of us are Micks. 1973 Times 31 July 12/7 On this theory the Council of Ireland can be presented as..‘a place where the Micks and Prods can get together occasionally’ as one Assembly member put it. 1993 Sydney Morning Herald 31 July 29/5 We of the Mick tribe have always prided ourselves that, while we may be considered slow, that apparent failing has had certain advantages. 3. More generally: any person, esp. one whose nationality, occupation, etc., is regarded with contempt.Originally an extended use of sense 1. ΚΠ 1928 F. S. Fitzgerald in Sat. Evening Post 28 Apr. 4/2 In sordid poverty, below the bluff two hundred feet away, lived the ‘micks’—they had merely inherited the name, for they were now largely of Scandinavian descent. 1937 in E. Partridge Dict. Underworld (1949) 437/2 Mick, a road mechanic. 1941 J. Smiley Hash House Lingo 37 Mick, Englishman. 1958 L. A. G. Strong Light above Lake 94 He's a dismal ould mick of a God. 1974 Amer. Speech 1971 46 81 Mexican: greaser, spick, wetback, mick, halfbreed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mickn.² Brit. /mɪk/, U.S. /mɪk/ Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: mickey n.¹ Etymology: Shortened < mickey n.¹Quot. 1974 at sense 2 shows a punning formation on Mick n.¹ 1 and taker n. 2a; though it appears to suggest the pre-existence of the phrase to take the mick , it may rather be after earlier to take the mickey and its derivatives (compare mickey n.¹ 7, mickey-take v., mickey-taking adj., mickey-taking n.). 1. Australian slang. A bullock; = mickey n.¹ 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bull > [noun] > castrated or bullock > with specific features spark1798 poley1843 mickey1876 snaily1884 mick1894 1894 A. B. Bell Oscar 67 Some few of the wildest mickeys broke away.., only to be tackled by the cattle dogs. One fierce mick, about eighteen months old, became enraged. 1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Aug. 46/3 I lifted nearly two hundred Poolpee micks on my way back and took 'em home with me. 1954 H. G. Lamond Manx Star 260 Mick, an unbranded, fully sexed male animal, adolescent. 1976 C. D. Mills Hobble Chains & Greenhide 145 This bloke's a ‘thick-horn’. Evidently been a mick. 2. colloquial (chiefly British). to take the mick (out of): = to take the mickey (out of) at mickey n.¹ 7. ΚΠ 1974 Daily Tel. 30 Nov. 28/6 The new anti-IRA Intelligence Unit..has already been nicknamed the ‘Mick-takers’.] 1985 Guardian 13 Sept. 8/1 Conference has during my years become one of the annual media events and I am not sure who is taking the mick out of whom. 1992 Wisden Cricket Monthly (BNC) Aug. 42 Barrington, though, was only being his naturally jolly self. He scarcely knew how to take the mick. 1997 Trail May 10/2 Even outdoor instructors, who carry every bit of emergency gear you could imagine, took the mick out of him. 1999 Sun 26 Oct. 47/3 People see the human side of you when you take the mick out of yourself. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mickn.³ Brit. /mɪk/, U.S. /mɪk/, Australian English /mɪk/, New Zealand English /mɪk/ Forms: also with capital initial. Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown. Use with capital initial suggests that the word may have been regarded as < the male forename Mick (see Mick n.¹). Australian and New Zealand slang. Esp. in the game of two-up: the reverse side of a coin, the tail. Also (occasionally): the obverse of a coin, the head (see also quot. 1919). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > obverse or reverse of coin pilea1393 cross and pile1584 reverse1605 averse1655 ranverse1656 obverse1658 heads1675 tail1684 endorse1688 woman1785 mazard1802 man1828 mick1918 1918 Aussie: Austral. Soldiers' Mag. Dec. 3/1 They were playing the good old game... Presently, up went two browns in the air. They came down showing two micks. 1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 33 Mick, (1) the Queen's head on a coin... (2) a queen in a pack of cards. 1938 J. Robertson With Cameliers in Palestine xx. 198 ‘A pair of Micks’, which means that the offerings are not accepted. 1953 T. A. G. Hungerford Riverslake 126 ‘Ten bob he tails 'em!’ he intoned,..‘I got ten bob to say he tails 'em—ten bob the micks!’ 1977 T. A. G. Hungerford Wong Chu & Queen's Letterbox 56 Ten bob the mick! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022). mickn.⁴ Brit. /mɪk/, U.S. /mɪk/ Origin: Apparently formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: hammock n. Etymology: Apparently shortened < hammock n., reflecting a nonstandard pronunciation of the second syllable of that word. Nautical slang. A hammock. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > bed on ship > hammock hammock1555 mick1929 1929 Papers Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. 10 308/1 Mick, an abridgement of ‘face like a scrubbed hammock’. 1946 J. Irving Royal Navalese 115 Mick, hammock. 1977 G. Melly Rum, Bum & Concertina (1978) xii. 169 The Baron now declared his intention of slinging his mick and crashing the baronial swede. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mickn.⁵ Brit. /mɪk/, U.S. /mɪk/ Forms: 1900s– mick, 1900s– mickey, 1900s– micky. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: mike n.³ Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < mike n.³ reinterpreted as the male forename Mike (see Mike n.⁴) and subsequently remodelled after Mick (see Mick n.¹) and Mickey, Micky (see mickey n.¹), alternative pet forms of the name Michael (see Michael n.), although compare earlier to take a Mickey Finn at Mickey Finn n. Phrases. British slang. to do a mick: to go away, to clear off (see mike n.³). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] wendeOE i-wite971 ashakec975 shakeOE to go awayOE witea1000 afareOE agoOE atwendOE awayOE to wend awayOE awendOE gangOE rimeOE flitc1175 to fare forthc1200 depart?c1225 part?c1225 partc1230 to-partc1275 biwitec1300 atwitea1325 withdrawa1325 to draw awayc1330 passc1330 to turn one's (also the) backc1330 lenda1350 begonec1370 remuea1375 voidc1374 removec1380 to long awaya1382 twinc1386 to pass one's wayc1390 trussc1390 waive1390 to pass out ofa1398 avoida1400 to pass awaya1400 to turn awaya1400 slakec1400 wagc1400 returnc1405 to be gonea1425 muck1429 packc1450 recede1450 roomc1450 to show (a person) the feetc1450 to come offc1475 to take one's licence1475 issue1484 devoidc1485 rebatea1500 walka1500 to go adieua1522 pikea1529 to go one's ways1530 retire?1543 avaunt1549 to make out1558 trudge1562 vade?1570 fly1581 leave1593 wag1594 to get off1595 to go off1600 to put off1600 shog1600 troop1600 to forsake patch1602 exit1607 hence1614 to give offa1616 to take off1657 to move off1692 to cut (also slip) the painter1699 sheera1704 to go about one's business1749 mizzle1772 to move out1792 transit1797–1803 stump it1803 to run away1809 quit1811 to clear off1816 to clear out1816 nash1819 fuff1822 to make (take) tracks (for)1824 mosey1829 slope1830 to tail out1830 to walk one's chalks1835 to take away1838 shove1844 trot1847 fade1848 evacuate1849 shag1851 to get up and get1854 to pull out1855 to cut (the) cable(s)1859 to light out1859 to pick up1872 to sling one's Daniel or hook1873 to sling (also take) one's hook1874 smoke1893 screw1896 shoot1897 voetsak1897 to tootle off1902 to ship out1908 to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909 to push off1918 to bugger off1922 biff1923 to fuck off1929 to hit, split or take the breeze1931 to jack off1931 to piss offa1935 to do a mick1937 to take a walk1937 to head off1941 to take a hike1944 moulder1945 to chuff off1947 to get lost1947 to shoot through1947 skidoo1949 to sod off1950 peel1951 bug1952 split1954 poop1961 mugger1962 frig1965 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 519/1 Mick, do a [equated with do a mike]. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren x. 192 Sending away,..do a mickey. 1961 S. Chaplin Day of Sardine xi. 225 I laid the ring on the notepaper and did a mickey as soon as I heard the front doorbell go. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mickn.⁶ Brit. /mɪk/, U.S. /mɪk/ Forms: 1900s– mick, 1900s– mickey, 1900s– micky. Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown. Apparently interpreted as showing the male forename Mick (see Mick n.¹) and consequently remodelled after Mickey, Micky (see mickey n.¹), alternative pet forms of the name Michael (see Michael n.). English regional (Lancashire and Cheshire). A pigeon, esp. a domestic (or feral) pigeon, or a wood pigeon. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Columbidae > pigeon culverc825 pigeon1375 pigeon1581 cooer1862 mick1940 1940 Notes & Queries 3 Aug. 79/1 Mick was the usual word for a pigeon, especially the domesticated kind [in Cheshire]. 1965 Jrnl. Lancs. Dial. Soc. Jan. 7 Woodpigeon..Mick, Micky: Southport, Liverpool. 1966 F. Shaw et al. Lern Yerself Scouse 23 De mickeys are lettin on de roof, the pigeons are alighting on the roof. 1966 ‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 68 Mickey-snatcher, a person who steals municipal pigeons. 1985 K. Howarth Sounds Gradely Mick, a woodpigeon. Southport, Liverpool, Everton. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1850n.²1894n.³1918n.⁴1929n.⁵1937n.⁶1940
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