Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A dialectal (Scotch) form of mickle.
Wiktionary
- adj. large, massive; much
- v. US, dialectal To latch onto something with the mouth.
- v. rare To talk big; to exaggerate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Much.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
Etymologies
- From Old English miċel, myċel. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Then she gave him Donal's school-slate, with a sklet-pike, and said, "Noo, mak a muckle A, cratur.”
“Evidently "muckle" could not be the dinner-horn, so Harvey passed over the maul, and Dan scientifically stunned the fish before he pulled it inboard, and wrenched out the hook with the short wooden stick he called a "gob-stick.”
“Dan peered down into the water alongside, and flourished the big "muckle," ready for all chances.”
“Rashes. 1870 version [ "muckle"] in MacLennan SNR (1909),”
“Alex Massie also asks:Jeremy Clarkson is a muckle tube.”
“Aye, weel, mony a mickle mak's a muckle, as Papa used to say.”
“Many proverbs use alliteration: "Many a mickle (little) makes a muckle (lot)," rhyme: "Man proposes, God disposes," parallelism: "Nothing ventured, nothing gained," ellipsis: "First come, first served," etc.”
“And and and when I broke up, I was all in a fuddle, a fussle—a muckle.”
“Ye suld munt up a muckle square of canvass, like Dick Tinto, and paint folks ainsells, that they like muckle better to see than ony craig in the haill water; and I wadna muckle objeck even to some of the Wallers coming up and sitting to ye.”
““The Almighty guide your course through the troubles of this wicked warld — and the muckle deevil blaw wind in your sails,” she added, in her natural tone, as the guests vanished from her miserable threshold.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘muckle’.
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Pickle and such
Words that end like pickle. Listed here because they're funny (because they end like pickle).
pickle, sparkle, yokel, tinkle, fickle, prickle, trickle, circle, snorkel, ensnorkel, chuckle, buckle and 137 more...
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Serendipity's Words
defenestration, mercurial, syzygy, wicked, iniquitous, metastable, demimonde, entropic, ephemeral, irreligious, frisbee, manifold and 474 more...
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wunderkammer's Words
smarmy, bubkes, elucidate, togs, aeolian, carp, kibosh, bosky, ramshackle, mange, harpy, effervesce and 163 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1401 more...
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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Fun Words
Words that have funny meanings or are just fun to say.
kumquat, chimichanga, sarsparilla, rutabaga, rumpus, flummox, encrusted, prestidigitation, pomegranate, preposterous, dentiloquist, sepulchre and 323 more...
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unpack your adjectives
and adverbs
walrusine, slipshod, bemused, inscrutable, bombastic, cattywampus, copacetic, famished, crackpot, flailsome, lugubrious, scalesome and 102 more...
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PPV List
sausage party, sausage fest, viridescent, somewhen, soporific, mendacious, loquacious, tenuous, serendipitous, decrepitude, bibulous, castigation and 23 more...
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tonka's Words
congee, tritone, flageolet, parritch, muckle, putresce, darnel, loll, pistil, boon, dagnab, vouchsafe and 12 more...
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dangleberry's Words
lush, dabble, babble, bauble, aubergine, dangle, tingle, tangle, zing, tomato, splosh, tinkle and 72 more...
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Welcome in Wonderland
Real words that I think would fit right into Wonderland/Underland vocabulary. Because I'm a geeky fangirl and that's how I roll. ^_^
widdershins, kenspeckle, thropple, whigmaleerie, swither, kerfuffle, stravaig, guddle, tapsalteerie, clashmaclavers, murgullie, umbersorrow and 37 more...
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Spat off the Tongue
Tweets
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bilby Historical meaning is 'a little', as in this sample from 1860:
I hadna been a wife a week but only four,
When mournfu' as I sat on the stane at the door,
I saw my Jamie's wraith, for I couldna think it he
Till he said, I'm come hame to marry thee.
O sair, sair did we greet, and muckle did we say;
We took but ae kiss, and I bade him gang away.
I wish that I were dead, but I'm no like to dee;
And why was I born to say, Wae's me?
I gang like a ghaist, and I carena to spin;
I daurna think on Jamie, for that wad be a sin;
But I'll do my best a gude wife aye to be, 35
For auld Robin Gray he is kind unto me.
- Lady A. Lindsay, 'Auld Robin Gray'. Aug 11, 2008