Crossword clues for muckle
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mickle \Mic"kle\ (m[i^]k"k'l), a. [OE. mikel, muchel, mochel,
mukel, AS. micel, mycel; akin to OS. mikil, OHG. mihil,
mihhil, Icel. mikill, mykill, Goth. mikils, L. magnus, Gr.
me`gas, gen. mega`loy; cf. Skr. mahat. [root]103. Cf. Much,
Muckle, Magnitude.]
Much; great. [Written also muckle and mockle.] [Old Eng.
& Scot.] ``A man of mickle might.''
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
1 (context archaic outside Northumbria and Scotland English) large, massive. 2 (context archaic outside Northumbria and Scotland English) much. n. (context chiefly Scotland English) A great amount. v
(context US dialectal English) To latch onto something with the mouth.
WordNet
n. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew]
Usage examples of "muckle".
I can bring mysell to ask a favour of ane that winna sae muckle as ware a word on me, to tell me if he hears me speaking till him.
He had nae ill-will to the Whig bodies, and liked little to see the blude rin, though, being obliged to follow Sir Robert in hunting and hosting, watching and warding, he saw muckle mischief, and maybe did some, that he couldna avoid.
Alec Forbes has cost me sae muckle in drink to haud my hert up, that I winna drink in his company.
Woodilee has aye been kenned for a queer bit, lappit in the muckle Wud, but the guilty aye come by an ill end.
Even if we had owre muckle power, I think we wad mak nae bad use of it.
Muckle exhorted the newly arrived lawmen to arrest the protesters for trespassing, truancy, and disturbing the peace.
I bocht what was in it, a wheen auld siller coins and some muckle flaigons.
There canna be muckle nourishment in sic a thin soil, but there maun be something that agrees wi' them.
I dochtna bide To hear yer bonnie name, Whaur muckle mous war opened wide Wi' lawless mirth and shame.
He works in the Quarries, ye ken, and a month yestreen he got a muckle stane on his leg that brak it like a pipe stapple.
I left as muckle gowd lying on mucklestane-Moor this morning as would plenish the house and stock the Heugh-foot twice ower, and I am certain sure Elshie wadna grudge us the use of it.
Gang on as ye are gaun, tak the first turn to the north, and syne east again whaur ye see a muckle windmill that pumps the water frae the sheughs.
O, there wasna muckle: I was in a great passion, but she was dung doitrified a wee.
The Law has no cognizance of a pricker or onything like him, and if well-meaning folk under his guiding compass the death of a man or woman that has not been duly tried and sentenced, the Law will uphaud it to be murder, just as muckle as if a caird had cut a throat at a dyke-side.
Doobtless sic bairnies hae to suffer frae the prood jeedgment o' their fellow-men and women, but they may get muckle guid and little ill frae that--a guid naebody can reive them o'.