muckle

muckle

Now Chiefly Scot. mickle

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Noun

(uncountable)

(chiefly Scotland) A great amount.

Adjective

(comparative more muckle, superlative most muckle)

(archaic, outside, Northumbrian and Scotland) Large, massive.
(archaic, outside, Northumbrian and Scotland) Much.

Verb

(third-person singular simple present muckles, present participle muckling, simple past and past participle muckled)

(US, dialectal) To latch onto something with the mouth.
(rare) To talk big; to exaggerate.

Origin

From Middle English mukel, muchel, from the same source as (perhaps a variant of) mickle, which see.

See also: mickle

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Besides Mainland, the principal member of the group, the more important are Yell, Unst and Fetlar in the north, Whalsay and Bressay in the east, Trondra, East and West Burra, Papa Stour, Muckle Roe and Foula in the west, and Fair Isle in the south.
Muckle Roe, "great red island" (202), roughly circular in shape and about 3 m.
Muckle Flugga (3), about 1 m.
In 1402 Alexander, lord of the Isles, set fire to the town, but spared the cathedral for a consideration, in memory of which mercy the Little Cross (so named to distinguish it from the Muckle or Market Cross, restored in 1888) was erected.

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