Mickey Mouse

English

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Mickey Mouse

The silhouette of Mickey Mouse's head

Etymology

The adjective sense developed during the Second World War, after a large quantity of low-quality counterfeit Mickey Mouse watches flooded the UK.

Pronunciation

Audio (General American): (file)
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Proper noun

Mickey Mouse

The most famous Disney cartoon character, an anthropomorphic mouse with a falsetto voice and a cheerful disposition.

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Arabic: مِيكِي مَاوْس (mīkī māws)
→ Azerbaijani: Mikki Maus
→ Bulgarian: Мики Маус (Miki Maus)
→ Czech: Mickey Mouse
→ Danish: Mickey Mouse
→ Dutch: Mickey Mouse
→ French: Mickey Mouse
→ Georgian: მიკი მაუსი (miḳi mausi)
→ German: Micky Maus (calque)
→ Greek: Μίκυ Μάους (Míky Máous), μικιμάους (mikimáous)
→ Hebrew: מיקי מאוס (miki maus)
→ Hindi: मिकी माउस (mikī māus)
→ Japanese: ミッキーマウス (Mikkī Mausu)
→ Korean: 미키 마우스 (Miki mauseu)
→ Macedonian: Мики Маус (Miki Maus)
→ Portuguese: Mickey Mouse
→ Romanian: Mickey Mouse, Miki Maus
→ Russian: Ми́кки Ма́ус (Míkki Máus)
→ Samoan: Miki Mausi
→ Spanish: Mickey Mouse
→ Thai: มิกกี้ เมาส์

Translations

Disney character

Afrikaans: Mickey Muis
Albanian: Miushi Miki m
Amharic: ሚኪ ማውዝ m (miki mawz)
Arabic: مِيكِي مَاوْس m (mīkī māws)
Armenian: Միկի Մաուս (Miki Maus)
Azerbaijani: Mikki Maus
Bengali: মিকি মাউস (miki maus)
Bulgarian: Мики Маус (Miki Maus)
Burmese: မစ်ကီးမောက်စ် (macki:maukc)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 米奇老鼠 (mai⁵ kei⁴ lou⁵ syu²)

Mandarin: 米老鼠 (zh) (Mǐ Lǎoshǔ), 米凱鼠／米凯鼠 (Mǐkǎishǔ), 米奇老鼠 (Mǐqí Láoshǔ), 米奇鼠 (Mǐqíshǔ)
Czech: Mickey Mouse
Danish: Mickey Mouse, Mikkel Mus (historical)
Dutch: Mickey Mouse (nl)
Esperanto: Miĉjo Muso
Estonian: Miki Hiir
Faroese: Mikkjal Mús m
Finnish: Mikki Hiiri
French: Mickey Mouse (fr)
Georgian: მიკი მაუსი (miḳi mausi)
German: Micky Maus (de)
Greek: Μίκυ Μάους (Míky Máous), μικιμάους (el) m (mikimáous)
Gujarati: મિકી માઉસ m (mikī māusa)
Hebrew: מיקי מאוס (miki maus)
Hindi: मिकी माउस (mikī māus)
Hungarian: Miki egér (hu), Mickey egér (hu)
Icelandic: Mikki mús
Indonesian: Mickey Mouse, Miki Tikus
Italian: Topolino
Japanese: ミッキーマウス (Mikkī Mausu)
Khmer: មីកគី ម៉ាវស៍ (mikki mavs)
Korean: 미키 마우스 (Miki Mauseu)
Lao: ມິກກີ ເມົາສ໌ (mik kī maot)
Latin: Michael Mus m, Michael Musculus m
Latvian: Mikipele m, Mikijs m, Mikimauss m
Lithuanian: Peliukas Mikis m
Macedonian: Мики Маус m (Miki Maus)
Malay: Mickey Mouse
Maori: Miki Kiore
Marathi: मिकी माउस (mikī māus)
Mongolian: Мики хулгана (Miki xulgana)
Norwegian: Mikke Mus
Polish: Myszka Miki (pl) f
Portuguese: Rato Mickey, Mickey Mouse m
Quechua: Miki Ukucha
Romanian: Miki Maus, Mickey Mouse
Russian: Ми́кки Ма́ус m (Míkki Máus)
Samoan: Miki Mausi
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: Miki Maus, Mika Miš m (historical)
Spanish: Mickey Mouse, Ratón Mickey, Ratón Miguelito
Swedish: Musse Pigg (sv) c, Micky Mus (historical)
Tagalog: Mickey Mouse
Tamil: மிக்கி மவுஸ் (mikki mavus)
Telugu: మిక్కీ మౌస్ (mikkī maus)
Thai: มิกกี้ เมาส์, มิคกี้เมาส์ (mík-gîi-máo, mík-gîi-máos)
Tibetan: མིག་གིའི་ཙི་ཙི། (mig gi'i tsi tsi)
Turkish: Miki Fare, Mickey Fare
Uyghur: مىكى چاشقان (miki chashqan)
Welsh: ^{(please verify)} Mici Llygoden m

Adjective

Mickey Mouse (not comparable)

(idiomatic) Of inferior quality, poorly-run; too easy to be taken seriously, trivial.
- 1983 November 21, “Rangers get past Quebec in Overtime”, in Miami Herald:
  "They are putting a Mickey Mouse operation on the ice," added Gretzky, who extended apologies to New Jersey goaltenders Ron Low and Chico Resch.
- 1991 April 20, CNN_Novak:
  You mean, somebody who, for example, is a retired Army officer, has been teaching, as you do in the Army about half the time for about 30 years, you mean he couldn't go in and teach in the school' cause he didn't take some Mickey Mouse course in education at a state university?
- 1996 February 11, Dave van Dyck, “Braves, Indians Are Teams to Beat Again; Series Repeat Appears Likely As Camps Open”, in Chicago Sun-Times, SPORTS, page 18:
  California (78-67): This is no Mickey Mouse outfit, even though Disney is buying into the team. / The Angels didn't make many changes in personnel during the winter.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

of an item of dubious quality

Finnish: mikkihiiri-

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

Mickey Mouse

Wikipedia ^da

A Mickey Mouse pin.

Etymology

1949, from English Mickey Mouse, notably being untranslated unlike this character in other Scandinavian languages.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: Mic‧key‧Mouse

Proper noun

Mickey Mouse

(cartoon) Mickey Mouse (One of the Disney cartoon characters, an anthropomorphic mouse who usually wears red shorts and is known for circular ears.)

Hyponyms

(Disney characters): Anders And, Fedtmule, Pluto

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

Mickey Mouse

Wikipedia ^pt

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Mickey Mouse.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.kej ˈmaw.zi/ [ˈmi.keɪ̯ ˈmaʊ̯.zi]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.kej ˈmaw.ze/ [ˈmi.keɪ̯ ˈmaʊ̯.ze]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.kɐj ˈmaw.zɨ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.kej ˈmaw.zɨ/
- (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.kej ˈmaw.zɨ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ke ˈmaw.zɨ/

Proper noun

Mickey Mouse m

Mickey Mouse

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Mickey Mouse

Wikipedia ^es

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Mickey Mouse.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌmiki ˈmaus/ [ˌmi.ki ˈmau̯s]
IPA^(key): /ˌmɪki ˈmaus/ [ˌmɪki ˈmau̯s]
Syllabification: Mic‧key Mou‧se

Proper noun

Mickey Mouse m

Mickey Mouse