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Thread #101619 Message #2051993
Posted By: Murray on Saltspring
14-May-07 - 11:52 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Taking the Mickey -- Origins
Subject: RE: Folklore: Taking the Mickey -- Origins
In Larne, around 1941, my friend referred to his penis as his mickey. It's pet name, something like "bobby" (my own Fife childhood, in the thirties), "Peter", and "John Thomas". Compare "Roger", mostly as a verb, = "have intercourse"; the term was often (significantly enough" applied to a bull.