See take the mickey on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "Possibly from Cockney rhyming slang “to take the Mickey Bliss” (for take the piss).",
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"name": "en-verb"
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"text": "Are you takin’ the mickey? You’ll get yer ’ead bashed in.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2008 November 15, Kenneth Nguyen, “Who's laughing now?”, in The Age newspaper:",
"text": "For the last eight years, taking the mickey out of George Bush has been great, victimless fun. Like taking candy from babies or shooting aquatically-challenged fish in size-challenged barrels.",
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}
],
"glosses": [
"To ridicule or mock."
],
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],
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"mock"
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"(intransitive, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang, idiomatic) To ridicule or mock."
],
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"word": "take the piss"
},
{
"word": "mock"
},
{
"word": "mickey-take"
},
{
"word": "take the Michael"
},
{
"word": "take the mick"
},
{
"word": "take the micky"
}
],
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to ridicule or mock",
"word": "sich lustig machen über"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to ridicule or mock",
"word": "verarschen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to ridicule or mock",
"word": "ugrat"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to ridicule or mock",
"word": "húz"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to ridicule or mock",
"word": "szórakozik"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to ridicule or mock",
"word": "stríða"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to ridicule or mock",
"word": "grínast"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to ridicule or mock",
"word": "taka vindinn úr"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "to ridicule or mock",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "robić sobie jaja"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nasmexátʹsja",
"sense": "to ridicule or mock",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "насмеха́ться"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "izdevátʹsja",
"sense": "to ridicule or mock",
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"word": "издева́ться"
},
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"sense": "to ridicule or mock",
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"etymology_text": "Possibly from Cockney rhyming slang “to take the Mickey Bliss” (for take the piss).",
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"ref": "2008 November 15, Kenneth Nguyen, “Who's laughing now?”, in The Age newspaper:",
"text": "For the last eight years, taking the mickey out of George Bush has been great, victimless fun. Like taking candy from babies or shooting aquatically-challenged fish in size-challenged barrels.",
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"glosses": [
"To ridicule or mock."
],
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"mock"
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"(intransitive, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang, idiomatic) To ridicule or mock."
],
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"word": "take the piss"
},
{
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"synonyms": [
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"word": "mickey-take"
},
{
"word": "take the Michael"
},
{
"word": "take the mick"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to ridicule or mock",
"word": "sich lustig machen über"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to ridicule or mock",
"word": "verarschen"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to ridicule or mock",
"word": "ugrat"
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"sense": "to ridicule or mock",
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to ridicule or mock",
"word": "szórakozik"
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"sense": "to ridicule or mock",
"word": "stríða"
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"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to ridicule or mock",
"word": "grínast"
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"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to ridicule or mock",
"word": "taka vindinn úr"
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"sense": "to ridicule or mock",
"tags": [
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"word": "robić sobie jaja"
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"sense": "to ridicule or mock",
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"word": "насмеха́ться"
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"word": "издева́ться"
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"sense": "to ridicule or mock",
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"word": "дразни́ть"
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"sense": "to ridicule or mock",
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],
"word": "take the mickey"
}
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