batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
(noun) (often followed by âofâ) a large number or amount or extent; âa batch of lettersâ; âa deal of troubleâ; âa lot of moneyâ; âhe made a mint on the stock marketâ; âsee the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photosâ; âit must have cost plentyâ; âa slew of journalistsâ; âa wad of moneyâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
mickle (comparative more mickle, superlative most mickle)
(archaic, now, chiefly, Scotland and Northern England, especially, Northumbria) (Very) great or large.
Synonym: muckle
The use in Northumbrian is occasional; the word muckle is more common.
mickle (comparative more mickle, superlative most mickle)
(archaic, now, chiefly, Scotland) To a great extent.
(obsolete) Frequently, often.
mickle (countable and uncountable, plural mickles)
(archaic, chiefly, Scotland) A great amount.
(archaic, Scotland, originally, erroneous) A small amount.
(obsolete) Great or important people as a class.
(obsolete) Greatness, largeness, stature.
mickle
(archaic, now, chiefly, Scotland and Northern England, especially, Northumbria) Much; a great quantity or amount of.
(archaic, now, chiefly, Scotland and Northumbria) Most; the majority of.
mickle
(archaic, now, chiefly, Scotland) A great extent or large amount.
• Melick, Mickel, melick
Mickle (plural Mickles)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Mickle is the 7983rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4141 individuals. Mickle is most common among White (69.07%) and Black/African American (25.14%) individuals.
• Melick, Mickel, melick
Source: Wiktionary
Mic"kle, a. Etym: [OE. mikel, muchel, mochel, mukel, AS. micel, mycel; akin to OS. mikil, OHG. mihil, mihhil, Icel. mikill, mykill, Goth. mikils, L. magnus, Gr. mahat. sq. root103. Cf. Much, Muckle, Magnitude.]
Definition: Much; great. [Written also muckle and mockle.] [Old Eng. & Scot.] "A man of mickle might." Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; âtheoretical scienceâ
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
