Mickle vs Sickle - What's the difference?
mickle | sickle |
Large, great.
* 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song :
Much; a great quantity or amount of.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.7:
Most; the majority of.
(chiefly, Scotland) A great amount.
Important or great people as a? class.
Greatness, largeness, stature.
(Scotland) A small amount.
A large amount or great extent.
* 1721 . James Kelly, A Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs :
(agriculture) an implement, having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops
(agriculture) To cut with a sickle
To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape.
To assume an abnormal crescent shape. Used of red blood cells.
As nouns the difference between mickle and sickle
is that mickle is (chiefly|scotland) a great amount while sickle is (agriculture) an implement, having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.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 sickle is
(agriculture|transitive) to cut with a sickle.As an adjective sickle is
shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped.mickle
English
Alternative forms
* meikle * muchell (obsolete) * michelDeterminer
- 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.
- Full many wounds in his corrupted flesh / He did engrave, and muchell blood did spend […].
Usage notes
Use in Northumbrian is occasional, the term (muckle) is more common.Derived terms
* overmickle * somickle * so mickleNoun
(-)- Many a little makes a mickle .
Derived terms
* many a mickle makes a mucklePronoun
(English Pronouns)- Seek mickle , and get something; seek little, and get nothing.