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Dickey vs Mickey - What's the difference?

dickey | mickey |

As nouns the difference between mickey and dickey

is that mickey is a small bottle of liquor, holding 375 ml or 13 oz., typically shaped to fit in one's pocket while dickey is a detachable shirt front, collar or bib.

As proper nouns the difference between mickey and dickey

is that mickey is a diminutive of the male given names Michael, Mike or Mick while Dickey is a diminutive=Richard given name.

As an adjective dickey is

in poor condition.

dickey

English

Alternative forms

* dicky * dickie

Noun

(en noun)
  • A detachable shirt front, collar or bib.
  • (carriage seat for a servant)

    • Adjective

    (er)
  • (informal) In poor condition

    • mickey

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, Canada, informal) A small bottle of liquor, holding 375 ml or 13 , typically shaped to fit in one's pocket.
  • * While you're at the liquor store, can you pick up another mickey of rye?
  • (slang) A Mickey Finn; a beverage, usually alcoholic, that has been drugged.
  • (slang) American depression era term for a potato as in a "roasted mickey".
  • * We roasted mickeys over a fire with two foot sticks.
  • (Cockney rhyming slang) piss, shortened and more commonly used form of Mickey Bliss.
  • (computing) The resolution of a mouse, used as a unit of length.

    • Derived terms

    * Texas mickey

    Related terms

    * See take the mickey