| 单词 |
mick |
| 释义 |
▪ I. mick2 Austral. slang.|mɪk|
[Origin unknown.]
The head, or sometimes the reverse, of a penny (see also quot. 1919).
1919W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 33 Mick, (1) the Queen's head on a coin... (2) a queen in a pack of cards. 1938J. Robertson With Cameliers in Palestine xx. 198 ‘A pair of Micks’, which means that the offerings [in the game of two-up] are not accepted. 1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 46 Mick, the ‘head’ of a penny. 1953T. A. G. Hungerford Riverslake 126 ‘Ten bob he tails 'em!’ he intoned,..‘I got ten bob to say he tails 'em—ten bob the micks!’
▪ II. mick3 slang.|mɪk|
Also mickey, micky.
[var. of mike n.3 reinterpreted as a proper name.]
to do a mick, etc., to go away, to clear off (see mike n.3).
1937Partridge Dict. Slang 519/1 Mick, do a [equated with do a mike]. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. x. 192 Sending away,..do a mickey. 1961S. Chaplin Day of Sardine xi. 225, I laid the ring on the notepaper and did a mickey as soon as I heard the front doorbell go.
▪ III. mick4 slang.|mɪk|
[Origin unknown.]
A seaman's hammock.
1929Papers Mich. Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. X. 308/1 Mick, an abridgement of ‘face like a scrubbed hammock’. 1946J. Irving Royal Navalese 115 Mick, hammock. 1961Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1183/1 Mick,..a seaman's hammock.
▪ IV. mick5 dial.|mɪk|
Also mickey, micky.
[Origin unknown.]
A pigeon.
1940N. & Q. 3 Aug. 79/1 Mick was the usual word for a pigeon, especially the domesticated kind [in Cheshire]. 1965Jrnl. Lancs. Dial. Soc. Jan. 7 Woodpigeon..Mick, Micky: Southport, Liverpool. 1966F. Shaw et al. Lern Yerself Scouse 23 De mickeys are lettin on de roof, the pigeons are alighting on the roof. 1966‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 68 Mickey-snatcher, a person who steals municipal pigeons. |
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