MUCKLE

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 ‘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”; “see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos”; “it must have cost plenty”; “a slew of journalists”; “a wad of money”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

muckle

(chiefly, Scotland) A great amount.

Adjective

muckle (comparative more muckle, superlative most muckle)

(archaic, outside, Northumbria and Scotland) Large, massive.

(archaic, outside, Northumbria and Scotland) Much.

Verb

muckle (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.

Synonyms

• (to talk big): mickle

Source: Wiktionary


Muc"kle, a. Etym: [See Mickle.]

Definition: Much. [Obs.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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