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muckle¹

  • /ˈmʌkəl/

Rhymes with -ʌkəl

Where it comes from

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

noun muckles

  1. Scotland A great amount.

adjective muckler · mucklest

  1. Scotland, archaic, outside Northumbria Large, massive. She clorts a muckle piece [sandwich] tae me, wi' different kinds o' jam,
  2. Scotland, archaic, outside Northumbria Much. But long they waited, and longer still, / With doubt and muckle pain, / But woe were the hearts of his brethren, / For he came not back again.

verb muckles · muckling · muckled

  1. Maine To latch onto something with the mouth. And how'd she get such a holt on you, Terence Campion, let alone the way she's muckled onto those Bennetts?
  2. rare To talk big; to exaggerate. I told him all, / Both bad and good; / I bade him call — / He said he would: / I added much — the more I muckled, / The more that chuckling chummy chuckled!

    Similar: mickle

muckle²

  • /ˈmʌkəl/

Rhymes with -ʌkəl

noun muckles

  1. A maul or hammer. Then the caplin moved off, and five minutes later there was no sound except the splash of the sinkers overside, the flapping of the cod, and the whack of the muckles as the men stunned them.

Muckle³

Where it comes from

Two possible origins:

* From Middle English muchel (“big”), a nickname for a big man.

* Borrowed from German Mückle, a diminutive of Muck.

proper noun Muckles

  1. A surname.

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@misc{muckle_2026,
  title = {muckle},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/muckle},
  urldate = {2026-11-05}
}