Rickle vs Mickle - What's the difference?
rickle | mickle |
A loose, disordered collection of things; a heap; a jumble.
* 1932 , , Sunset Song , Canongate Books (2008), ISBN 9781847673596,
A dilapidated or ramshackle building.
* 1844 , dated 28 June 1844, re-printed in New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle (ed. Alexander Carlyle), John Lane (1903),
Any object in poor condition, particularly a vehicle.
* 1899 , Golf Illustrated , Volume 2, page 93:
An emaciated person or animal.
* 1899 , , In Chimney Corners: Merry Tales of Irish Folk Lore , Doubleday & McClure (1899),
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 :
As nouns the difference between rickle and mickle
is that rickle is a loose, disordered collection of things; a heap; a jumble while mickle is (chiefly|scotland) 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.rickle
English
Noun
(en noun)page 22:
- It was no more than a butt and a ben, with a rickle of sheds behind it where old Pooty kept his donkey that was nearly as old
pages 136-137:
- We came home by a place called Speke Hall — built 1589 — the queerest-looking old rickle of boards that I ever set eyes on;
- On a memorable night was the old rickle of a boat taken out to the West Sands during a terrible storm, when Admiral Maitland Dougall distinguished himself by his valiant services.
page 228:
- But it's a bad disaise that can't be cured somehow, Manis said to himself — so be began to consider how to sell his rickle of a pony to advantage.
Quotations
* ----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.