micky

plural mickies

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of mickey.

   Bronco horse pulling a ‘micky’ (young bull) up for branding.

   2005, Jack Drake, The Outback vs the Wild West, Moorooka, Brisbane, Qld.: Boolarong Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 155

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   Ill put on my best shift and drawers let him have a good eyeful out of that to make his micky stand for him […]

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 18: Penelope]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 729

   "But," said the cook, "if we was in the city I'd take fifty cents of it purty, pronto and get myself a four-bit micky." / "A what?" I asked, mystified. / "A four-bit micky, a fifty-cent bottle of alcohol—Dr. Hall, white line," he translated in disgust. "If you're goin' west you better learn to talk west."

   1926 September, Jack Black, chapter VI, in You Can’t Win, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published December 1926, →OCLC, page 66

   The cattle slayers had gone their way, with their smoking rifles and the mob of "mickies" they intended, somewhere in the fastnesses of the ranges, to brand and make legally, as far as the letter of the law went, their own.

   [1927], M[abel] Forrest, chapter 12, in Hibiscus Heart, London: Hutchinson & Co., →OCLC, page 124

   There was an old micky named Cassidy / who was famed for impromptu mendacity. / When asked did he lie / he replied: to reply / would be to impugn his veracity.

   1964, Conrad Aiken, “[Number] 5”, in A Seizure of Limericks, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →OCLC, page 5

1. Alternative spelling of Mickey.
   1. A diminutive of the male given name Michael.
   2. A diminutive of the female given names Michaela and Michelle.

      "What's yor name?" "Micky." "That's a name for a boy or a mouse. So it's probably Michelle. Most women your age are named Michelle or Heather or Courtney." "My age?" "No offense meant." "It's Michelina."

      2001, Dean Ray Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 3

plural Mickies

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of Mickey.
   1. derogatoryoffensiveslangSynonym of Mick (“an Irishman”).

      National identity and ethnic origin mapped gang territory: ‘Little Italy’; ‘Little Sicily’; ‘Polish colony’; […] ‘Mickies’ (Irish). Each possessed demarcated districts within which gangs adopted neighbourhood names and tags […]

      2011, Barry Goldson, Youth in Crisis?: ‘Gangs’, Territoriality and Violence, page 90

      Synonyms: Mick