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mickle | lickle |

As a determiner mickle

is large, great.

As a noun mickle

is (chiefly|scotland) a great amount.

As a pronoun mickle

is a large amount or great extent.

As an adverb mickle

is to a great extent.

As an adjective lickle is

(chiefly|uk|childish|or|regional) little.

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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    lickle

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (chiefly, UK, childish, or, regional) little