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Mickey vs Minnie - What's the difference?

mickey | minnie |

As nouns the difference between mickey and minnie

is that mickey is (slang) a mickey finn; a beverage, usually alcoholic, that has been drugged while minnie is mom; mummy.

As a proper noun mickey

is a diminutive of the male given names michael, mike or mick.

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

    minnie

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A diminutive of Wilhelmina, Minerva, Mary, Mina or Mamie. Popular as a formal female given name in the 19th century.
  • * 1880 , The Victoria Magazine , v.36 (July-Dec 1880), page 264
    • When they are used to express the affectionate regard of near friends and relatives they also may be pretty and appropriate, but they look very silly in a formal signature, and surely do not befit the dignity of womanhood. We had, for instance, among these 800 names scores of Minnies , Mamies, and only here and there a Mary, a much more euphonious as well as a dignified name.
    English diminutives of female given names