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Mickle vs Buckle - What's the difference?

mickle | buckle |

In scotland|lang=en terms the difference between mickle and buckle

is that mickle is (scotland) a small amount while buckle is (scotland) to unite in marriage.

As nouns the difference between mickle and buckle

is that mickle is (chiefly|scotland) a great amount while buckle is (countable) a clasp used for fastening two things together, such as the ends of a belt, or for retaining the end of a strap.

As a determiner mickle

is large, great.

As a pronoun mickle

is a large amount or great extent.

As an adverb mickle

is to a great extent.

As a verb buckle is

to distort or collapse under physical pressure; especially, of a slender structure in compression or buckle can be to fasten using a buckle.

mickle

English

Alternative forms

* meikle * muchell (obsolete) * michel

Determiner

  • Large, great.
  • * 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song :
    • at gloaming a shepherd would see it, with its great wings half-folded across the great belly of it and its head, like the head of a meikle cock, but with the ears of a lion, poked over a for tree, watching.
  • Much; a great quantity or amount of.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.7:
    • Full many wounds in his corrupted flesh / He did engrave, and muchell blood did spend […].
  • Most; the majority of.

    • Usage notes

    Use in Northumbrian is occasional, the term (muckle) is more common.

    Derived terms

    * overmickle * somickle * so mickle

    Noun

    (-)
  • (chiefly, Scotland) A great amount.
    • Many a little makes a mickle .
  • Important or great people as a? class.
  • Greatness, largeness, stature.
  • (Scotland) A small amount.

    • Derived terms

    * many a mickle makes a muckle

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • A large amount or great extent.
  • * 1721 . James Kelly, A Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs :
    • Seek mickle , and get something; seek little, and get nothing.

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • To a great extent.
  • Often, frequently.

    • References

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    buckle

    English

    (wikipedia buckle)

    Etymology 1

    From a frequentative form of .

    Verb

    (buckl)
  • To distort or collapse under physical pressure; especially, of a slender structure in compression.
  • * 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
    • Perhaps as startling as the sheer toll was the devastation to some of the state’s well-known locales. Boardwalks along the beach in Seaside Heights, Belmar and other towns on the Jersey Shore were blown away. Amusement parks, arcades and restaurants all but vanished. Bridges to barrier islands buckled , preventing residents from even inspecting the damage to their property.
  • To make bend; to cause to become distorted.
  • (figuratively) To give in; to react suddenly or adversely to stress or pressure (of a person).
    • It is amazing that he has never buckled after so many years of doing such urgent work.
  • To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
  • * Samuel Pepys
    • The Dutch, as high as they seem, do begin to buckle .
  • (obsolete) To enter upon some labour or contest; to join in close fight; to contend.
  • * Latimer
    • The bishop was as able and ready to buckle with the Lord Protector as he was with him.
  • * Shakespeare
    • In single combat thou shalt buckle with me.
  • To buckle down; to apply oneself.
  • * Barrow
    • To make our sturdy humour buckle thereto.
  • * J. D. Forbes
    • Before buckling to my winter's work.
  • * Fuller
    • Cartwright buckled himself to the employment.

    Etymology 2

    * Noun: (etyl) bocle, from (etyl) . * Verb: bokelen "to arch the body," from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) A clasp used for fastening two things together, such as the ends of a belt, or for retaining the end of a strap.
  • (Canada, heraldry) The brisure of an eighth daughter.
  • (roofing) An upward, elongated displacement of a roof membrane frequently occurring over insulation or deck joints. A buckle may be an indication of movement with the roof assembly.
  • A distortion, bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
    • (Knight)
  • A curl of hair, especially a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
  • * Washington Irving
    • earlocks in tight buckles on each side of a lantern face
  • * Addison
    • lets his wig lie in buckle for a whole half year
  • A contorted expression, as of the face.
  • * Churchill
    • 'Gainst nature armed by gravity, / His features too in buckle see.

    Verb

  • To fasten using a buckle.
  • (Scotland) To unite in marriage.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)

    See also

    * buckle down * buckle up * turnbuckle

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