Mickey Mouseadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌmɪkɪ ˈmaʊs/, U.S.

/ˈˌmɪki ˈmaʊs/

Forms: 1900s– Mickey Mouse, 1900s– Mickie Mouse, 1900s– Micky Mouse, 1900s– Mickymouse. Also with lower-case initial(s).

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Mickey Mouse.

Etymology: < the name of Mickey Mouse, an animated mouselike character created by the American cartoonist Walter Elias (‘Walt’) Disney (1901–66) and introduced in the film Steamboat Willie (1928). First registered as a proprietary name by the Walt Disney Company in 1928.

Originally U.S.

A. adj. (chiefly attributive).

1. Featuring, resembling, or associated with the cartoon character Mickey Mouse, or animated films, etc., portraying him; reminiscent of Mickey Mouse or his appearance, clothing, etc.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [adjective] > specific character

big-endian1726

Sleeping Beauty1729

little-endian1828

Mickey Mouse1930

Sherlock Holmesian1958

Sherlockian1959

Dalek1963

Pooterish1963

Moomin-like1965

hobbitish1966

James Bondish1966

James Bond1967

1930 B. Bibo (title) The Mickey Mouse book.

1936 ‘G. Orwell’ Let. 26 Aug. in Coll. Ess. (1968) I. 228 You have moved too much away from the ordinary world into a sort of Mickey Mouse universe where things and people don't have to obey the rules of space and time.

1939 War Illustr. 18 Nov. 310/3 Special ‘Mickey Mouse’ gas-masks in various colours and having separate eye-pieces and a little nose are being made for small children who are repelled by the ordinary ones.

1965 Life 30 July 29 Wearing the flopeared ‘Mickey Mouse’ hats of aircraft carrier launch crewmen.

1980 A. R. Millett Semper Fidelis 512 The ‘Mickey Mouse’ boots prevented frostbite.

1984 B. Reid So Much Love iii. 27 The Musical Director..wore white, holey Mickey Mouse gloves.

1991 K. Douglass Viper Strike 7 The bulbous radio headgear known as Mickey Mouse ears.

2. In figurative use (usually derogatory).

a. Designating a person or thing deemed to be lacking in value, size, authenticity, or seriousness; ineffectual, insignificant, worthless.

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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > of little importance or trivial

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minnowy1991

1931 Jewish Chron. 27 Mar. 10/2 All this ‘Mickey-Mouse’ Zionism is really but so much dust prepared for the eyes of those who..do not wish to see the truth.

1940 San Francisco News 26 Sept. 22 The big, bad Bears, outweighing their Mickey Mouse rivals by some 20 pounds per man.

1945 Time 16 July 73 The Japs flooded the Islands [sc. the Philippines] with their ‘Mickey Mouse’ paper money.

1951 San Francisco Examiner 3 Feb. 1/3 (heading) 40th Division. Troops lack equipment. Woes of ‘Mickey Mouse Army’.

1969 C. Davidson in A. Cockburn & R. Blackburn Student Power 329 The forms given us for our self-government are of the Mickey Mouse, sand-box variety.

1972 J. Mosedale Football ii. 25 One reason for the AFL's reputation as a Mickey Mouse league is that it gave new life to NFL rejects.

1974 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Nov. 1/2 The titles kept the press and broadcast media from thinking ‘it was such a Mickey Mouse operation’.

1978 Vole Aug. 33/a Australian notes don't look like Mickey Mouse money, like those of some countries I could mention.

1985 Today's Computers June 106/1 If we blow the opportunity just because we want to save Mickey Mouse amounts on capital costs, our clients will be the ones who are disadvantaged.

1992 Wilson Q. Spring 121/2 Schools lowered the standards. Textbooks were ‘dumbed down’; Mickey Mouse electives were added; grades were inflated.

b. Of music (esp. jazz): typical or reminiscent of the score accompanying a cartoon film; unimaginative, trite, pedestrian. Of a band, etc.: performing such music.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [adjective] > inferior music

corn-fed1929

Mickey Mouse1937

tiddly-pom1937

1937 D. O. Selznick in R. Behlmer Memo from D. O. Selznick (1972) 122 What I term ‘Mickey Mouse’ scoring: an interpretation of each line of dialogue and each movement musically, so that the score tells with music exactly what is being done by the actors on the screen.

1938 Down Beat Mar. 29/2 An original style combining the precise tempos and rhythms of mickey-mouse-moosic with the ‘anything-can-happen’ type of swing and novelty numbers.

1938 Down Beat Apr. 25/2 A strictly ‘mickey mouse’ band is still box office.

1954 San Francisco Chron. 17 June 17 (heading) Glenn Miller's music was all Mickey Mouse.

1966 Crescendo May 4/2 The jazzman's struggle for self-expression in a world of commercial Mickey Mouse bands.

1981 R. Horricks in P. Gammond & R. Horricks Big Bands 22 Certain other leaders in this field..allowed their output to degenerate into mere ‘Micky Mouse’ music.

1992 Down Beat Feb. 58/1 I used to jam seven nights a week..and played with some of the biggest Mickey Mouse bands ever.

B. n.

1. A representation of the cartoon character Mickey Mouse (as a toy, decorative image, etc.).

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > actors or characters > [noun] > cartoon characters

Mickey Mouse1931

Pluto1932

1928 N.Y. Times 19 Nov. 16/8 On the same program is the first sound cartoon, produced by Walter Disney, creator of ‘Oswald the Rabbit’. This current film is called ‘Steamboat Willie’, and it introduces a new cartoon character, henceforth to be known as ‘Micky Mouse’.]

1931 M. Allingham Look to Lady xiv. 150 Takes that Micky Mouse you sent him to bed with him every night.

1942 N. Streatfeild I ordered Table for Six 20 That little bit of the room at the top must have been a nursery once, there's some Mickie Mouses on that wallpaper.

1991 Harper's Mag. Nov. 42/2 A rubber Mickey Mouse whose head..came altogether off and could be reinstalled upon a small flanged collar between his shoulders.

2. colloquial. An easily influenced person; one who is inconsequential, timid, or weak.

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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant

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Mickey Mouse1935

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1935 S. Lewis It can't happen Here ix. 86 Dr. Goebbels..is privily known throughout Germany as ‘Wotan's Mickey Mouse’.

1941 San Francisco Examiner 2 Mar. (Picture Review section) 7/1 George Graham, a timid, middle-aged mickey mouse who was afraid of crowds, people, anything.

1976 Business Week 27 July 4 There are many Mickey Mouses in office across the country, from both parties and at all levels of government.

3. Film. slang. A small spotlight (see quot. 1937). rare.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > stage lights

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1937 Cinema Arts July 24 The light which the electrician is aiming at Mr. Gable's head is the smallest ‘spot’ used in the studio, and is therefore known as a Mickey Mouse.

4. Air Force slang. An electrical device which releases bombs from an aircraft (see quot. 1943¹). Cf. Mickey n.² 2.

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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > device to release bombs from aircraft

Mickey Mouse1941

1941 N.Y. Times 6 Apr. 30/5 This war is producing a new batch of army slang... Many of the words are peculiar to certain units, and very few are yet in general use... An R.A.F. pilot calls his cockpit the ‘pulpit’... The instrument releasing the bombs, an electrical distributor, is called a ‘Mickey Mouse’.

1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang 46 Mickey Mouse. The bomb-dropping mechanism on some types of bomber aircraft is so called because it strongly resembles the intricate machinery portrayed in Walt Disney's cartoons.

1943 L. Cheshire Bomber Pilot i. 8 If I knew how to use ‘Mickey Mouse’, to open and shut bomb doors, or use a bomb-sight.

5. colloquial. Pointless or irrelevant activity, time-wasting; an instance of this. Also: foolishness, nonsense.

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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > worthless

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1958 J. Davis College Vocab. (term paper, Indiana Univ. Folklore Archive) 13 Mickey mouse, an activity which has no purpose.

1962 P. Mandel Mainside 251 Why go through all Mr Ives' mickeymouse?

1963 Amer. Speech 38 176 An assignment which is regarded as foolish and a waste of time is a Mickey Mouse [in Kansas University slang].

1974 L. St. Clair Emerald Tray (1975) vii. 103 I'm sick of all this Micky Mouse. You're his mistress or you're not.

1980 T. Wolfe Right Stuff (1981) vii. 146 The main thing was to ride the bird up there into space..and let's hold the Mickey Mouse down to a minimum.

1993 in J. E. Lighter Hist. Dict. Amer. Slang (1997) II. 550 To the French that's just a load of Mickey Mouse.

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

单词	mickey mouse
释义	Mickey Mouseadj.n. Brit. /ˌmɪkɪ ˈmaʊs/, U.S. /ˈˌmɪki ˈmaʊs/ Forms: 1900s– Mickey Mouse, 1900s– Mickie Mouse, 1900s– Micky Mouse, 1900s– Mickymouse. Also with lower-case initial(s). Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Mickey Mouse. Etymology: < the name of Mickey Mouse, an animated mouselike character created by the American cartoonist Walter Elias (‘Walt’) Disney (1901–66) and introduced in the film Steamboat Willie (1928). First registered as a proprietary name by the Walt Disney Company in 1928. Originally U.S. A. adj. (chiefly attributive). 1. Featuring, resembling, or associated with the cartoon character Mickey Mouse, or animated films, etc., portraying him; reminiscent of Mickey Mouse or his appearance, clothing, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [adjective] > specific character big-endian1726 Sleeping Beauty1729 little-endian1828 Mickey Mouse1930 Sherlock Holmesian1958 Sherlockian1959 Dalek1963 Pooterish1963 Moomin-like1965 hobbitish1966 James Bondish1966 James Bond1967 1930 B. Bibo (title) The Mickey Mouse book. 1936 ‘G. Orwell’ Let. 26 Aug. in Coll. Ess. (1968) I. 228 You have moved too much away from the ordinary world into a sort of Mickey Mouse universe where things and people don't have to obey the rules of space and time. 1939 War Illustr. 18 Nov. 310/3 Special ‘Mickey Mouse’ gas-masks in various colours and having separate eye-pieces and a little nose are being made for small children who are repelled by the ordinary ones. 1965 Life 30 July 29 Wearing the flopeared ‘Mickey Mouse’ hats of aircraft carrier launch crewmen. 1980 A. R. Millett Semper Fidelis 512 The ‘Mickey Mouse’ boots prevented frostbite. 1984 B. Reid So Much Love iii. 27 The Musical Director..wore white, holey Mickey Mouse gloves. 1991 K. Douglass Viper Strike 7 The bulbous radio headgear known as Mickey Mouse ears. 2. In figurative use (usually derogatory). a. Designating a person or thing deemed to be lacking in value, size, authenticity, or seriousness; ineffectual, insignificant, worthless. 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Troops lack equipment. Woes of ‘Mickey Mouse Army’. 1969 C. Davidson in A. Cockburn & R. Blackburn Student Power 329 The forms given us for our self-government are of the Mickey Mouse, sand-box variety. 1972 J. Mosedale Football ii. 25 One reason for the AFL's reputation as a Mickey Mouse league is that it gave new life to NFL rejects. 1974 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Nov. 1/2 The titles kept the press and broadcast media from thinking ‘it was such a Mickey Mouse operation’. 1978 Vole Aug. 33/a Australian notes don't look like Mickey Mouse money, like those of some countries I could mention. 1985 Today's Computers June 106/1 If we blow the opportunity just because we want to save Mickey Mouse amounts on capital costs, our clients will be the ones who are disadvantaged. 1992 Wilson Q. Spring 121/2 Schools lowered the standards. Textbooks were ‘dumbed down’; Mickey Mouse electives were added; grades were inflated. b. Of music (esp. jazz): typical or reminiscent of the score accompanying a cartoon film; unimaginative, trite, pedestrian. Of a band, etc.: performing such music. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [adjective] > inferior music corn-fed1929 Mickey Mouse1937 tiddly-pom1937 1937 D. O. Selznick in R. Behlmer Memo from D. O. Selznick (1972) 122 What I term ‘Mickey Mouse’ scoring: an interpretation of each line of dialogue and each movement musically, so that the score tells with music exactly what is being done by the actors on the screen. 1938 Down Beat Mar. 29/2 An original style combining the precise tempos and rhythms of mickey-mouse-moosic with the ‘anything-can-happen’ type of swing and novelty numbers. 1938 Down Beat Apr. 25/2 A strictly ‘mickey mouse’ band is still box office. 1954 San Francisco Chron. 17 June 17 (heading) Glenn Miller's music was all Mickey Mouse. 1966 Crescendo May 4/2 The jazzman's struggle for self-expression in a world of commercial Mickey Mouse bands. 1981 R. Horricks in P. Gammond & R. Horricks Big Bands 22 Certain other leaders in this field..allowed their output to degenerate into mere ‘Micky Mouse’ music. 1992 Down Beat Feb. 58/1 I used to jam seven nights a week..and played with some of the biggest Mickey Mouse bands ever. B. n. 1. A representation of the cartoon character Mickey Mouse (as a toy, decorative image, etc.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > actors or characters > [noun] > cartoon characters Mickey Mouse1931 Pluto1932 1928 N.Y. Times 19 Nov. 16/8 On the same program is the first sound cartoon, produced by Walter Disney, creator of ‘Oswald the Rabbit’. This current film is called ‘Steamboat Willie’, and it introduces a new cartoon character, henceforth to be known as ‘Micky Mouse’.] 1931 M. Allingham Look to Lady xiv. 150 Takes that Micky Mouse you sent him to bed with him every night. 1942 N. Streatfeild I ordered Table for Six 20 That little bit of the room at the top must have been a nursery once, there's some Mickie Mouses on that wallpaper. 1991 Harper's Mag. Nov. 42/2 A rubber Mickey Mouse whose head..came altogether off and could be reinstalled upon a small flanged collar between his shoulders. 2. colloquial. An easily influenced person; one who is inconsequential, timid, or weak. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant unknownc1390 pawnc1450 semi-cipher?1550 bauble1570 Jack with the feather1581 nobody1583 winterling1585 squash1600 rush candle1628 niflec1635 nullity1657 nonentity1710 featherweight1812 underscrub1822 nyaff1825 small fish1836 no-account1840 little fish1846 peanut1864 commonplacer1874 sparrow-fart1886 Little Willie1901 pipsqueak1905 nebbish1907 pie-biter1911 blob1916 smallie1930 no-count1932 zilch1933 Mickey Mouse1935 muzhik1945 nerd1951 nothingburger1953 nerk1955 non-person1959 no-mark1982 1935 S. Lewis It can't happen Here ix. 86 Dr. Goebbels..is privily known throughout Germany as ‘Wotan's Mickey Mouse’. 1941 San Francisco Examiner 2 Mar. (Picture Review section) 7/1 George Graham, a timid, middle-aged mickey mouse who was afraid of crowds, people, anything. 1976 Business Week 27 July 4 There are many Mickey Mouses in office across the country, from both parties and at all levels of government. 3. Film. slang. A small spotlight (see quot. 1937). rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > stage lights footlight1776 limelight1826 float1829 spotlight1875 ground-row1881 lime1892 baby spot1910 amber1913 spot1920 strip light1920 perch1933 follow spot1937 Mickey Mouse1937 pin spot1947 1937 Cinema Arts July 24 The light which the electrician is aiming at Mr. Gable's head is the smallest ‘spot’ used in the studio, and is therefore known as a Mickey Mouse. 4. Air Force slang. An electrical device which releases bombs from an aircraft (see quot. 1943¹). Cf. Mickey n.² 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > device to release bombs from aircraft Mickey Mouse1941 1941 N.Y. Times 6 Apr. 30/5 This war is producing a new batch of army slang... Many of the words are peculiar to certain units, and very few are yet in general use... An R.A.F. pilot calls his cockpit the ‘pulpit’... The instrument releasing the bombs, an electrical distributor, is called a ‘Mickey Mouse’. 1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang 46 Mickey Mouse. The bomb-dropping mechanism on some types of bomber aircraft is so called because it strongly resembles the intricate machinery portrayed in Walt Disney's cartoons. 1943 L. Cheshire Bomber Pilot i. 8 If I knew how to use ‘Mickey Mouse’, to open and shut bomb doors, or use a bomb-sight. 5. colloquial. Pointless or irrelevant activity, time-wasting; an instance of this. Also: foolishness, nonsense. 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Davis College Vocab. (term paper, Indiana Univ. Folklore Archive) 13 Mickey mouse, an activity which has no purpose. 1962 P. Mandel Mainside 251 Why go through all Mr Ives' mickeymouse? 1963 Amer. Speech 38 176 An assignment which is regarded as foolish and a waste of time is a Mickey Mouse [in Kansas University slang]. 1974 L. St. Clair Emerald Tray (1975) vii. 103 I'm sick of all this Micky Mouse. You're his mistress or you're not. 1980 T. Wolfe Right Stuff (1981) vii. 146 The main thing was to ride the bird up there into space..and let's hold the Mickey Mouse down to a minimum. 1993 in J. E. Lighter Hist. Dict. Amer. Slang (1997) II. 550 To the French that's just a load of Mickey Mouse. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Mickey Mousev. Brit. /ˌmɪkɪ ˈmaʊs/, U.S. /ˈˌmɪki ˈmaʊs/ Forms: also with lower-case initials. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: Mickey Mouse n. Etymology: < Mickey Mouse n. U.S. colloquial. 1. intransitive. To waste time in trivial or irrelevant activity. Chiefly in to mickey mouse around: to mess around. ΚΠ 1963 M. W. Cagle Naval Aviator's Guide 396 Mickey Mouse, to fly or perform aimlessly, haphazardly, or foolishly. 1973 Fortune May 264 We can't Mickey Mouse around while faced with technological challenges from other countries. 1982 Chicago Sun-Times 3 Sept. 106/3 Together, they might even have had the foresight to go public with a strike deadline the other day instead of continuing to Mickey Mouse around. 1999 San Francisco Examiner (Nexis) 28 Dec. b4 (caption) Stanford wide receiver Troy Walters won't quit Mickey Mouse-ing around. 2. transitive. To approach or deal with (a person or thing) in an incompetent or devious manner. ΚΠ 1968 Everett (Washington) Herald 28 Oct. 10 a The whole project is being so Mickey-Moused back into production that it will be hard to match what went before. 1972 San Francisco Examiner 13 Apr. 6/2 We'll show you how to Mickey Mouse the front end of the deal... We'll show you how to skirt the loopholes from beginning to end. 1974 P. K. Dick We can remember it for you Wholesale (1994) 378 It seems you mickey-moused me into notifying a rabid anti-abortionist activist of your presence here. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1930v.1963
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Mickey Mouseadj.n.

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