mickeying
mickeying is the present participle and gerund of mickey.
Meaning of mickey
Verb
mickey (third-person singular simple present mickeys, present participle mickeying, simple past and past participle mickeyed)
- Sometimes followed by up: short for mickey-finn (“to drug (someone) with a Mickey Finn (“an alcoholic or non-alcoholic drink deliberately doctored with a drug intended to quickly render the drinker unconscious”); to secretly put a drug into (someone's drink) to render them unconscious”).
- Sam said he hadn't mickeyed me. That meant that he had either prepared a mickey at someone else's order, without knowing for whom it was intended, or he had seen someone else do the concocting.1951, Robert O. Saber, The Scented Flesh (A Handi-book Mystery; 124), Kingston, N.Y.: Quinn Publishing, →OCLC, page 46
Questions about mickeying
- What is mickeying the present participle and gerund of?
- Mickeying is the present participle and gerund of mickey.
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