Micks

Maybe denouncing abombinations & iniquities is just in their blood, the way drink is to us Micks, which is why the Democrat Party is the natural home for them.

Does the world—and the US—want Israel to survive? 2010

If he said 'Micks', surely he has made the same mistake as Cairns did on Radio Wales.

Disgusted of Monmouth 2008

The Irish "Micks" were equally despised; it wasn't really till Kennedy's inaugeration that they were actually viewed as genuinely "White."

The Emerging Stagnant Majority, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

In Mr. Braine's novel the Catholics of Charbury are mostly of second or third generation Irish origin, who still sardonically refer to themselves as 'Micks' and who occasionally frequent, in a rather embarrassed way, a decaying institution called the Hibernian Club, with its portraits of the Pope, De Valera, and James Connolly.

New Novels Bergonzi, Bernard 1965

"Micks," and they had become expert wielders of the wooden pick, shovel and crowbar.

Nedra George Barr McCutcheon 1897

The winter of my discontent, however, was somewhat cheered by games of football and baseball in the vacant lots on the heights above Wall Street Ferry, and by fierce battles and single combats with the tribes of 'Micks' who inhabited the regions of

Days Off And Other Digressions Henry Van Dyke 1892

I discovered in the "Micks" that if you bluster as an officer, they simply let you fall flat your face.

Army Rumour Service 2009

After 12 years with the "Micks", including tours of duty in Northern Ireland and Germany, plus two years as equerry to the Queen Mother, Mr Bassett at first became a trouble shooter for a travel business where he faced the unenviable task of sacking staff aboard a filthy and ineptly run cruise ship.

Army Rumour Service 2009

Tourism representatives are sharing stories such as Micks to break perceptions that tourism, which includes everything from people tasting wine to families cheering a child participating in a basketball tournament at the SunDome, has little effect in the big economic picture.

Yakima Herald-Republic Weekly News 2009

2036: Bad news for 'Micks' with a bogey at the seventh.

BBC - Ouch 2010