Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a person of Irish birth or descent.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A slang name for an Irishman. See micky.
Wiktionary
- n. an Irishman
- n. A Catholic, particularly of Irish descent.
- n. a reference to an easy class, coming from the term Mickey Mouse
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a person of Irish descent; -- an ethnic slur, offensive and disparaging.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Irish descent
Etymologies
- Probably from the name Mick, nickname for Michael.
Examples
“I am loving russel!!!, nat and jaison. mick is a bit of a bore but whatever … go foa foa!”
“Two guineas, one hunky funky lace-curtain Irish mick.”
“If you look at my posts I'm more coherent than that 'mick'.”
“He shoved in the juice and made time, you bet; no "mick" was going to catch up and shout orders at him!”
“I was brought up with five brothers, in two rooms on the top floor of a rear tenement on Avenue B; I was a little street "mick," and then I was”
“He cites a personal example in which he called Irish pugilist Aran Ryan a "mick" out of frustration while playing.”
“The startups launch right in front of you, and if the wi-fi holds, then my chance of getting "mick" goes way up.”
“mick" who lived in a tenement, and whose mother stood at the head of the stairway and defended him with a rolling-pin against a policeman who was chasing him.”
“February 19th, 2010 at 12: 33 am bla bla bla OUTRAGE! mick says:”
“Meathead: Aw, c'mon, Arch. Archie: Well, then here you got O'Reilly, the mick.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mick’.
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Alle Menschen werden Brüder
It's only a question of time, when.
Derogatory terms for anybody different.zog lover, zipperhead, zip, yid, yellow, yankee, yank, wog, whitey, wigga, wop, whigger and 315 more...
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old timey talk
Words or Sayings from the 1920's or whatever that no one really uses anymore (at least in that context).
scram, bearcat, heavens to betsy, dick, double-cross, ducky, gams, goofy, hooch, jalopy, john, joe and 174 more...
chained_bear Do you have a citation for that, r.frog? (I'm curious where it came from since I never saw it before.) :) Aug 21, 2008
seanahan Or my favorite form of the Irish 7 course meal, a bottle of whiskey and 6 baked potatoes. Aug 21, 2008
john Mmm, potatoes. What's an Irish 7 course meal? A six pack and a potato. Amen. Aug 21, 2008
seanahan You forgot about potatoes. Aug 21, 2008
renumeratedfrog "The only two things those damn micks are interested in are booze and Jesus." Aug 19, 2008