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soft Mick

soft Mick proper noun: an extravagant person.

Proper noun

soft Mick

  1. (UK, idiomatic, slang) An extravagant person.

Origin of soft Mick

This phrase may originally have referred to an Irish shoe peddler working around Accrington, East Lancashire, in the early 1900s, from the phrase "more shoes than Soft Mick".

Questions about soft Mick

What does soft Mick mean?
Soft Mick means an extravagant person.
What part of speech is soft Mick?
Soft Mick is a proper noun.

Words near soft Mick in the dictionary

  1. soft markets
  2. soft matte
  3. soft mattes
  4. soft media
  5. soft medias
  6. soft Mick
  7. soft mode
  8. soft modes
  9. soft money
  10. soft moneys
  11. soft mutation

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