Mick
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Mick or "Mic" is a short form of the popular forename Michael and is used extensively throughout Ireland. Some also claim that it comes from the popular Irish surname "Mc-," as in McDowell, or McShane.
It is also sometimes used, usually with a lower-case "m", as an offensive slang term in British English and American English for an Irish person or a Roman Catholic.
It is also used as slang in the phrase take the mickey or take the mick meaning to tease.
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Many Irish surnames begin with "Mc" or "Mick." Irish are also named after the famed Michael Collins, making Michael (Mick) a very common name. Mick, Mc, or Mic refers to as mainly as
"son of". For instance the surname MacDonnell literally means son of Donnell.