English Explanatory Dictionary

soft Mick

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An extravagant person.

Pronunciation

En-au-soft Mick.ogg

Word forms

soft Mick

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".

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