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Rickey vs Tickey - What's the difference?

rickey | tickey |

As nouns the difference between rickey and tickey

is that rickey is a cocktail made with lime citrus fruit and carbonated water while tickey is a silver threepenny bit.

As a proper noun Rickey

is a variant of Ricky, diminutive of the male given name Richard.

rickey

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A variant of Ricky, diminutive of the male given name Richard.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cocktail made with lime (citrus fruit) and carbonated water.
  • *1926 , , The Great Gatsby , Penguin 2000, p. 112:
  • *:Tom came back, preceding four gin rickeys that clicked full of ice.

    • Anagrams

    * English diminutives of male given names

    tickey

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (South Africa, obsolete) A silver threepenny bit.

    • Derived terms

    * tickey box * long tickey * tickey-draai * stops on a tickey. * half a brick and a tickey high. South African English