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What is the difference between mickle and muckle?

mickle | muckle |

Muckle is a synonym of mickle.



In chiefly scotland terms the difference between mickle and muckle

is that mickle is a great amount while muckle is a great amount.

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 an adjective muckle is

large, massive.

As a verb muckle is

to latch onto something with the mouth.

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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    muckle

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (chiefly, Scotland) A great amount.

    • Derived terms

    * many a mickle makes a muckle

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic, outside, Northumbria, and, Scotland) Large, massive.
  • * , song A Pair o Nicky-tams :
    • She clorts a muckle piece [sandwich] tae me, wi' different kinds o' jam,
    An' tells me ilka nicht that she admires my Nicky Tams.
  • (archaic, outside, Northumbria, and, Scotland) Much.

    • Verb

    (muckl)
  • (US, dialectal) To latch onto something with the mouth.
  • * {{quote-book, 1954, Elizabeth Ogilvie, The Dawning of the Day citation
    • , passage= And how'd she get such a holt on you, Terence Campion, let alone the way she's muckled onto those Bennetts?}}
  • * {{quote-book, 2002, William G. Wilkoff, The Maternity Leave Breastfeeding Plan, isbn=0743213459 citation
    • , passage=Another technique for the baby who is having trouble muckling on involves a breast or nipple shield.}}
  • * {{quote-book, 2004, William J. Vande Kopple, The Catch: Families, Fishing, and Faith, page=18, isbn=0802826776 citation
    • , passage=When an exhausted sucker is hauled to the top of The Wall, usually its muckling circle of a mouth goes into a frenzied sucking spasm.}}
  • (rare) To talk big; to exaggerate.
  • * {{quote-book, 1896, , The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan, year_published=1941
    • , passage=I told him all, / Both bad and good; / I bade him call — / He said he would: / I added much — the more I muckled , / The more that chuckling chummy chuckled! }}

    Synonyms

    * (to talk big) mickle

    References

    * * * Geordie English