MICK

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• MICK (noun)
  The noun MICK has 1 sense:

1. (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Irish descent

  Familiarity information: MICK used as a noun is very rare.

• MICK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Irish descent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Mick; Mickey; Paddy

Hypernyms ("Mick" is a kind of...):

Irishman (a man who is a native or inhabitant of Ireland)

Domain usage:

depreciation; derogation; disparagement (a communication that belittles somebody or something)

ethnic slur (a slur on someone's race or language)

 Context examples 

Mealy Potatoes uprose once, and rebelled against my being so distinguished; but Mick Walker settled him in no time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It seemed to me so long, however, since I had been among such boys, or among any companions of my own age, except Mick Walker and Mealy Potatoes, that I felt as strange as ever I have done in my life.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Accordingly, when the Saturday night came, and we were all waiting in the warehouse to be paid, and Tipp the carman, who always took precedence, went in first to draw his money, I shook Mick Walker by the hand; asked him, when it came to his turn to be paid, to say to Mr. Quinion that I had gone to move my box to Tipp's; and, bidding a last good night to Mealy Potatoes, ran away.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His name was Mick Walker, and he wore a ragged apron and a paper cap. He informed me that his father was a bargeman, and walked, in a black velvet head-dress, in the Lord Mayor's Show.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As often as Mick Walker went away in the course of that forenoon, I mingled my tears with the water in which I was washing the bottles; and sobbed as if there were a flaw in my own breast, and it were in danger of bursting.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)