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Definition: Mick |
MickNoun1. Ethnic slur; a person of Irish descent. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Mick" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "Who is like God?". |
Date "Mick" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references) |
Synonyms: MickSynonyms: Mickey (n), Paddy (n). (additional references) |
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See also:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mick."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Extraneousness | Noun: extraneousness; Adjective: extrinsicality; exteriority; alienage, alienism. foreign body, foreign substance, foreign element; alien, stranger, intruder, interloper, foreigner, novus homo, newcomer, immigrant, emigrant; creole, Africander; outsider; Dago, wop, mick, polak, greaser, slant, Easterner, Dutchman, tenderfoot. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mick |
| English words defined with "Mick": Mick Jagger. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Mick": Taking the mick. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Mick" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (Mike). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Mick, you never change your clothes. (Raw Is War; writing credit: Brian Gewirtz; Paul Heyman) Mick, Mick! (Jumpin' Jack Flash; writing credit: David Franzoni;) Mick, why do you think the Rutles broke up? (The Rutles; writing credit: Eric Idle) Mick Jagger and I had a running tally going. (Mallrats; writing credit: Kevin Smith) If it's Mick Jagger, run away and ring the bell I gave you. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ginger Mick (1920) Mick and Mike Find the Hidden Treasure (1901) The Mick Molloy Show (1999) Welcome to Bondage: Lorrin Mick (1993) Mad Mick (1975) | |
Song Titles | God Gave Me Everything (performing artist: Mick Jagger) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books |
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Theater & Movies | |||
Music |
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High Tech |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Two images of Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones in performance, drummer Keith Richards in background. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Jack Lemmon | Mick was incredibly helpful with that because he could catch a word. If I hit it a little too hard, he would say, let's do it just once more. Watch it right here. And he'd tell me where. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Mick" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.16% of the time. "Mick" is used about 1,300 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 96.16% | 1,250 | 6,265 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.61% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.31% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.92% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,300 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Mick" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Mick | Last name | 2,000 | 6,902 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Mick" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "Who is like God?". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Mick." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Mikel | Male | Basque | Michael |
| Mitxel | Male | Basque | Michael |
| Michael | Male | Biblical | N/A |
| Miquel | Male | Catalan | Michael |
| Myghal | Male | Cornish | Michael |
| Michael | Male | Czech | N/A |
| Michaela | Female | Czech | Michael |
| Michal | Male | Czech | Michael |
| Michael | Male | English | N/A |
| Michaela | Female | English | Michael |
| Micheal | Male | English | Michael |
| Michelle | Female | English | Michael |
| Mick | Male | English | Michael |
| Mickey | Male | English | Mick |
| Mike | Male | English | Michael |
| Miles | Male | English | Michael |
| Mitchell | Male | English | Michael |
| Michjo | Male | Esperanto | Michael |
| Mihhaelo | Male | Esperanto | Michael |
| Mikelo | Male | Esperanto | Michael |
| Mikko | Male | Finnish | Michael |
| Michèle | Female | French | Michael |
| Michel | Male | French | Michael |
| Micheline | Female | French | Michael |
| Michelle | Female | French | Michael |
| Michael | Male | German | N/A |
| Michaela | Female | German | Michael |
| Michel | Male | German | Michael |
| Mikala | Male | Hawaiian | Michael |
| Mihály | Male | Hungarian | Michael |
| Mícheál | Male | Irish | Michael |
| Micaela | Female | Italian | Michael |
| Michela | Female | Italian | Michael |
| Michelangelo | Male | Italian | Michael |
| Michele | Male | Italian | Michael |
| Michelina | Female | Italian | Michael |
| Mykolas | Male | Lithuanian | Michael |
| Michal | Male | Polish | Michael |
| Michalina | Female | Polish | Michael |
| Miguel | Male | Portuguese | Michael |
| Mihaela | Female | Romanian | Michael |
| Mihai | Male | Romanian | Michael |
| Mihaita | Male | Romanian | Michael |
| Mikhail | Male | Russian | Michael |
| Mikhaila | Female | Russian | Michael |
| Misha | Male, Female | Russian | Michael |
| Mikael | Male | Scandinavian | Michael |
| Mikaela | Female | Scandinavian | Michael |
| Mikkel | Male | Scandinavian | Michael |
| Mìcheal | Male | Scottish | Michael |
| Micheil | Male | Scottish | Michael |
| Mihael | Male | Slovene | Michael |
| Miguel | Male | Spanish | Michael |
| Mikayla | Female | Ukrainian | Michael |
| Mikhailo | Male | Ukrainian | Michael |
| Meical | Male | Welsh | Michael |
| Mihangel | Male | Welsh | Michael |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expression using "Mick": Mick Jagger. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
mick jagger | 434 | book foley mick tour | 13 |
mick foley | 404 | mick jagger lyrics | 13 |
mars mick | 62 | biography jagger mick | 12 |
mick cain | 61 | gay jagger mick | 11 |
mick fleetwood | 56 | foley mick wwe | 10 |
mick taylor | 55 | rolling stone and mick jagger | 9 |
mick | 45 | india jagger mick | 8 |
hucknall mick | 45 | mick foley book | 8 |
mick ronson | 36 | mick thomson | 8 |
mick jones | 27 | mick brown | 8 |
brumby mick | 25 | mick sterling | 8 |
mick jagger picture | 22 | haggerty mick | 7 |
mick jagger photo | 20 | jag mick | 7 |
mick thompson | 19 | mick martin | 7 |
mick doohan | 18 | mick rock | 7 |
mick karn | 18 | foley.com mick | 7 |
foley mick picture | 18 | lorrin mick | 7 |
hart mick | 16 | foley mankind mick | 7 |
foley mick pic | 16 | bowie david jagger mick | 6 |
fanning mick | 15 | mick jager | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Mick"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إيرلندي (irish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | Irlandais. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ミシン糸 (automatic transmission, beauty contest to name Miss Xxxxx, crop circle, mediocracy, medium, medium rare, medium size, middy, middy look, midget, midget house, midi, midi communication, midnight, midnight blue, midnight show, MIPS, MIS, miscasting, miserable, misery index, misfortune, misjudgement, mislead, mis-match, misprint, miss, mission, mission school, Missouri, mist, mistake, mister, mistral, misty, misunderstanding, mitochondria, mitt, Mitterrand, mix, mixed doubles, mixed juice, mixed media, Mr, Mrs, Ms., mysterious, mystery, mystery circle, mysticism, mystification, myth, sewing cotton, transvestite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ミック . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ickmay Irlandez (bog trotter, irish, irishman, Pat). (various references) Ýrlandalı (Gael, Paddy, Pat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Mick": mickey, mickeys, mickle, mickler, mickles, micklest, micks. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Mick": gimmick. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Mick": gimmicked, gimmicking, gimmickries, gimmickry, gimmicks, gimmicky, mimicked, mimicker, mimickers, mimicking, ungimmicky. (additional references) | |
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"Mick" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hmci, Hmcic, Imcv, Macek, Mcit, meck, Mecke, Mecky, Menck, mic, micke, Mickle, Micko, micky, Mico, Mikk, Mikki, Mikko, Mishka, Missika. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Mick" (pronounced mi"k) |
| 2 | -i" k | brick, chick, click, Crick, Dick, flick, handpick, Hick, kick, lick, Nick, nonstick, pic, pick, prick, quick, realpolitik, Rick, schtick, shtick, sic, sick, slick, spic, stick, Strick, thick, tic, tick, trick, Wick. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-k-m" | |
-1 letter: ick. | |
-2 letters: mi. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-k-m" | |
+1 letter: micks. | |
+2 letters: karmic, kimchi, medick, mickey, mickle, umiack. | |
+3 letters: comatik, gimmick, keramic, kimchee, kimchis, limbeck, maffick, medicks, mickeys, mickler, mickles, miscook, miskick, mocking, muckier, muckily, mucking, oomiack, rimrock, stickum, umiacks. | |
+4 letters: chipmuck, chipmunk, comaking, comatiks, comblike, cormlike, dominick, gimcrack, gimmicks, gimmicky, homesick, icemaker, kamacite, keramics, kimchees, kismetic, leukemic, limbecks, limerick, mackinaw, mackling, mafficks, magicked, maverick, micklest, millcake, mimicked, mimicker, miscooks, miskicks, monicker, muckiest, munchkin, mutchkin, nickname, oomiacks, quackism, rimrocks, scumlike, sickroom, smacking, smocking, stickman, stickmen, stickums. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 69 63 6B |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .. -.-. -.- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101001 01100011 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M i c k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0069 0063 006B |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47756977 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Spoken 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Names: Frequency 10. Names: Derived from 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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