"soft Mick" meaning in English

See soft Mick in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Audio: En-au-soft Mick.ogg [Australia]
Etymology: 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". Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} soft Mick
  1. (slang, British, idiomatic) An extravagant person. Wikipedia link: Accrington Tags: British, idiomatic, slang

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