Muckle

Word MUCKLE
Character 6
Hyphenation muc kle
Pronunciations /ˈmʌkəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Muckle"

What do we mean by muckle?

A great amount.

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The word "muckle" in example sentences

Then she gave him Donal's school-slate, with a sklet-pike, and said, "Noo, mak a muckle A, cratur." ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

Dan peered down into the water alongside, and flourished the big "muckle," ready for all chances. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

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." ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

Rashes. 1870 version [ "muckle"] in MacLennan SNR (1909), ❋ Unknown (1847)

Alex Massie also asks:Jeremy Clarkson is a muckle tube. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"Aye, weel, mony a mickle mak's a muckle, as Papa used to say." ❋ Unknown (2010)

And and and when I broke up, I was all in a fuddle, a fussle—a muckle. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Poor 27-year-old Chris O'Donnell is forced to whine like a teenager again, while Alicia Silverstone, all muckle-mouthed, is asked to graduate from being Clueless to being an "Oxbridge" student who races motorcycles, kicks ass, and turns into Batgirl. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Meiklewham; “and albeit ye were nae great gun at the bar, ye might aye have gotten a Sheriffdom, or a Commissaryship, amang the lave, to keep the banes green; and sae ye might have saved your estate from deteriorating, if ye didna mend it muckle.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

“And I hope your lordship disna want that muckle,” said ❋ Unknown (2008)

‘If the kirk is ower muckle, we can sing mass in the quire,’ said Peter, helping himself in the goblet out of which he had been drinking the small beer. ❋ Unknown (2008)

My gudesire saw everything look so muckle against him, that he grew nearly desperate — however, he shifted from one foot to another, looked to every corner of the room, and made no answer. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“Naething will disturb her, puir thing,” answered Mrs. Dods; “they have muckle to answer for that brought her to this!” ❋ Unknown (2008)

As old age rendered her inactive, she began to regret the incapacity of her son to superintend his own household, and talked something of matrimony, and the mysteries of the muckle wheel. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Francie, and muckle ado I had to keep ye baith in order when ye were on the ramble. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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