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Mickle vs Tickle - What's the difference?

mickle | tickle |

As nouns the difference between mickle and tickle

is that mickle is (chiefly|scotland) a great amount while tickle is the act of tickling.

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 tickle is

to touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which causes the recipient to feel a usually pleasant sensation of tingling or titillation.

As an adjective tickle is

changeable, capricious; insecure.

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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    tickle

    English

    (tickling)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of tickling.
  • A feeling resembling the result of tickling.
    • I have a persistent tickle in my throat.
  • (Newfoundland) A narrow strait.
  • * 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 169:
    • Cow Head itself is a prominent headland connected to the settlement by a natural causeway, or ‘tickle ’ as the Newfoundlanders prefer it.

    Verb

    (tickl)
  • To touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which causes the recipient to feel a usually pleasant sensation of tingling or titillation.
    • He tickled Nancy's tummy, and she started to giggle.
  • * Shakespeare
    • If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
  • (of a body part) To feel as if the body part in question is being tickled.
    • My nose tickles , and I'm going to sneeze!
  • To appeal to someone's taste, curiosity etc.
  • To cause delight or amusement in.
    • He was tickled to receive such a wonderful gift.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Such a nature / Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow / Which he treads on at noon.
  • To feel titillation.
  • * Spenser
    • He with secret joy therefore / Did tickle inwardly in every vein.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "tickle")

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from the verb "tickle") * tickle someone's fancy * tickle the dragon's tail * tickle the ivories * tickle pink * tickler * ticklish * tickly

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Changeable, capricious; insecure.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
    • So ticle be the termes of mortall state, / And full of subtile sophismes, which do play / With double senses, and with false debate [...].

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