Mickey

Quick meaning: Mickey is a noun meaning The noisy miner (Manorina melanocephala), a honeyeater endemic to eastern and southeastern Australia.

Meaning

The noisy miner (Manorina melanocephala), a honeyeater endemic to eastern and southeastern Australia.

More Meanings

1. A young bull, especially one which is unbranded and running wild; a bullock.
2. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, slang, rare) The vulva.
3. Short for Mickey Bliss (“an act of urinating; a piss”).
4. In take the mickey: a person's (false) pride, which is criticized through disparagement or ridicule; piss.
5. (computing) 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.
6. (chiefly Ireland, slang) The penis.
7. (chiefly Canada, informal) 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.

Example Sentences

He fell off the bike and injured his mickey.

While you’re at the liquor store, get a mickey of rye.

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

Can't blame her for it, 'cause her mickey was probably throbbin' for it.

Word Forms

• mickeys
• mickeying
• mickeyed

Synonyms for mickey

Depending on context, synonyms include mick, paddy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include paddy, mick, potato, mousing, mike, mitch.

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