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Tickey vs Mickey - What's the difference?

tickey | mickey |

As nouns the difference between tickey and mickey

is that tickey is (south africa|obsolete) a silver threepenny bit while 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.

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

    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