Mickey vs False - What's the difference?
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(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.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun mickey
is (slang) a mickey finn; a beverage, usually alcoholic, that has been drugged.As a proper noun mickey
is a diminutive of the male given names michael, mike or mick.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.mickey
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* Texas mickeyfalse
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(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}