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muckle

[ muhk-uhl ]

adjective

British Dialect.


muckle

/ ˈʌə /

adjective

  1. large; much
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adverb

  1. much; greatly
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of muckle1

Middle English mukel, variant of muchel; much
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of muckle1

dialect variant of mickle
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Example Sentences

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There’s a Jamaican phrase, “Every mickle mek a muckle,” which means “Every little bit adds up.”

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Photograph: Warrick Page/Getty Images The 20th century, on the other side, opens with not one but two spaces devoted to the muckle works of Henry Moore.

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Donatello's tiny cherub bursting with mirth as he shakes a tambourine had more eloquence in its single up-curled toe than all the muckle monuments of Rodin, the only conventional choices in this show.

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Many a mickle makes a muckle NECESSITY, so the proverb has it, is the mother of invention.

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But they are by no means a team, these muckle men, with their proud and resentful expressions.

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