muckle

See also: Muckle

English

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

muckle

muckle (comparative more muckle, superlative most muckle)

(archaic outside Northumbria and Scotland) Large, massive.
- c. 1930, George S. Morris, song A Pair o Nicky-tams:
  She clorts a muckle piece [sandwich] tae me, wi' different kinds o' jam,
  An' tells me ilka nicht that she admires my Nicky Tams.
(archaic outside Northumbria and Scotland) Much.

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.
- 1954, Elizabeth Ogilvie, The Dawning of the Day‎, page 199:
  And how'd she get such a holt on you, Terence Campion, let alone the way she's muckled onto those Bennetts?
- 2002, William G. Wilkoff, The Maternity Leave Breastfeeding Plan‎, →ISBN, page 87:
  Another technique for the baby who is having trouble muckling on involves a breast or nipple shield.
- 2004, William J. Vande Kopple, The Catch: Families, Fishing, and Faith‎, →ISBN, page 18:
  When an exhausted sucker is hauled to the top of The Wall, usually its muckling circle of a mouth goes into a frenzied sucking spasm.
(rare) To talk big; to exaggerate.
- 1896, W.S. Gilbert, “The Grand Duke, or the Statutory Duel”, in The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan, published 1941:
  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!

A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896,
“muckle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

muckle (comparative mair, superlative maist)

muckle (comparative muckler, superlative mucklest)

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