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Mikey vs Mickey - What's the difference?

mikey | mickey |

Mickey is a related term of mikey.



As proper nouns the difference between mikey and mickey

is that mikey is a diminutive of the male given names Mike and Michael while Mickey is a diminutive of the male given names Michael, Mike or Mick.

As a noun mickey is

a small bottle of liquor, holding 375 ml or 13 oz., typically shaped to fit in one's pocket.

mikey

English

Proper noun

(en-proper noun) (plural Mikeys )
  • A diminutive of the male given names Mike and Michael.
    • English diminutives of male given names

    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