different between mickey vs tickey

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

Dubious: Possibly from Malay tiga (“three”).

Noun

tickey (plural tickeys)

1. (South Africa, obsolete) A silver threepenny (2+¹?₂ cents from 1961) bit (last minted 1964).

Derived terms

• tickey box
• long tickey
• tickey-draai
• stops on a tickey.
• half a brick and a tickey high.

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