Mickey vs Donald - What's the difference?
mickey | donald |
(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.
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* 1816 , Old Mortality , Samuel H. Parker, 1836, page 232
* 1980 , The Glass House, a Novella and Stories , Viking Press, 1980, ISBN 0670341797, page 76:
* 1991 , Donald Duk , Coffee House Press, 1991, ISBN 0918273838, page 1
As proper nouns the difference between mickey and donald
is that mickey is a diminutive of the male given names michael, mike or mick while donald is .As a noun mickey
is (slang) a mickey finn; a beverage, usually alcoholic, that has been drugged.mickey
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* Texas mickeydonald
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(en proper noun)- "Country?" replied Cuddie; "ou, the country's weel eneugh, and it werena that dour deevil, Calver'se, ( they ca' him Dundee now) that's stirring about yet in the Highlands, they say, with a' the Donalds , and Duncans, and Dugalds, that ever wore bottomless breeks, driving about wi' him, to set things asteer again, - - -
- My friends call me Terry. My husband always used my full name, Teresa. He said it made him feel like he was married to a foreign woman. And I never called him Don or Donny or Donny Joe. I called him Donald from the first time we met.
- Donald' Duk never liked his name. He hates his name. He is not a duck. He is not a cartoon character. - - - "Only the Chinese are stupid enough to give a kid a stupid name like '''Donald''' Duk," ' Donald Duk says to himself.