Muckled vs Mucked - What's the difference?
muckled | mucked |
(muckle)
(chiefly, Scotland) A great amount.
(archaic, outside, Northumbria, and, Scotland) Large, massive.
* , song A Pair o Nicky-tams :
(archaic, outside, Northumbria, and, Scotland) Much.
(US, dialectal) To latch onto something with the mouth.
* {{quote-book, 1954, Elizabeth Ogilvie, The Dawning of the Day
, 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
, 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
, 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, ,
, 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! }}
(muck)
Slimy mud.
Soft or slimy manure.
dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
Anything filthy or vile.
(obsolete, derogatory) money
* Beaumont and Fletcher
To shovel muck.
To manure with muck.
To do a dirty job.
(poker, colloquial) To pass (gloss, give one's cards back to the dealer).
As verbs the difference between muckled and mucked
is that muckled is (muckle) while mucked is (muck).muckled
English
Verb
(head)muckle
English
Noun
(-)Derived terms
* many a mickle makes a muckleAdjective
(en adjective)- She clorts a muckle piece [sandwich] tae me, wi' different kinds o' jam,
An' tells me ilka nicht that she admires my Nicky Tams.
Verb
(muckl)citation
citation
citation
The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan, year_published=1941
Synonyms
* (to talk big) mickleReferences
* * * Geordie Englishmucked
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*muck
English
Noun
(-)- The car was covered in muck from the rally race.
- I need to clean the muck off my shirt.
- (Francis Bacon)
- What's that green muck on the floor?
- (Spenser)
- the fatal muck we quarrelled for
Derived terms
* mucky * where there's muck there's brassVerb
(en verb)- We need to muck the stable before it gets too thick.
