different between mickey vs hickey

English

Etymology

• (potato): From the common Irish name; compare murphy (“a potato”).
• (computer mouse resolution): An allusion to the cartoon character Mickey Mouse.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?ki/
• Rhymes: -?ki

Noun

mickey (plural mickeys)

1. (chiefly Canada, informal) A small bottle of liquor, holding 375 ml or 13 oz., typically shaped to fit in one's pocket. [from the 1910s]

2. (US, slang) A Mickey Finn; a beverage, usually alcoholic, that has been drugged. [from the 1930s]
3. (US, slang, dated, Depression Era) A potato. [from the 1930s]

4. (chiefly Ireland, informal) The penis. [from the 1900s]

5. (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, informal) The vagina. [from the early 1900s]
6. (Australia, informal) A well-known honeyeater, the Noisy Miner, Manorina melanocephala, of eastern Australia. [from the 1910s]
7. (rural Australia, informal) A young bull, especially one that is unbranded and running wild. [from the 1870s]
8. (Cockney rhyming slang) piss, shortened and more commonly used form of Mickey Bliss.
9. (computing) The resolution of a mouse: the smallest measurable distance it can move the cursor, used as a unit of length.

Verb

mickey (third-person singular simple present mickeys, present participle mickeying, simple past and past participle mickeyed)

1. To secretly slip drugs into somebody's drink.

Derived terms

• Texas mickey

Related terms

• See take the mickey

English

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?k.i/
• Rhymes: -?ki

Noun

hickey (plural hickeys)

1. (US, slang) A bruise-like mark made during petting by pressing the mouth to the skin on one’s partner’s body and sucking. [from 1934]

   Synonyms: love bite, lovebite, knot

2. (informal, slang) An object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled. [from 1909]
3. (printing) A printing defect caused by foreign matter on the printing surface resulting in a ring where the ink is missing, appearing as a spot of ink surrounded by a halo, or as an unprinted spot within a solid printed area.
4. (printing, informal) A serif or other ornamentation on type.
   • 2008, American Printer (volume 125, page 63)

     Years ago, there were internal company standards for dark center (ink color) hickeys and for white voids in solids/type.

   • 2018, Paul W. Ross, Revival: The Handbook of Software for Engineers and Scientists

     It is generally believed, by those who study such things, that serif typefaces are easier to read when reading a lot of words. The hickeys (serifs) on each letter tend to push our eye toward the next letter.

5. Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury. [from 1915]
6. A tool for making smooth, semicircular bends in conduit and pipe.

   Synonym: conduit bender

7. (US, slang, business, finance) An unintended negative outcome or loss in regards to a deal or action, often preceded by the words "taking a ..." or "took a ... ".

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:thingy

Derived terms

• doohickey, dohickey

Translations

Further reading

• hickey on Wikipedia.Wikipedia