micky

micky (plural mickies)

1. Alternative spelling of mickey.
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 18: Penelope]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 729:

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

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

     "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."

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

     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.

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

     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.

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

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

     Originally published under the title The Wild West in Australia and America (2005).

• micky off

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɪt͡skɪ]

micky f

1. inflection of micka:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural