Meaning

4 senses

  1. (Scotland, archaic, countable, uncountable)A great amount.

    Many a little makes a mickle.

    (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent

  2. (Scotland, archaic, countable, uncountable)A small amount.

  3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Great or important people as a class.

  4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Greatness, largeness, stature.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. Many a little makes a mickle.

    ruС миру по нитке - голому рубаха.

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  2. Many a mickle makes a muckle.

    ruПо капле и море собирается.

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  3. I make a considerable sum of money out of it, and each of my men contributes a mickle toward it.

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Origin

From Middle English mickle, michel, mikel, mochel, muchel, mukel (“much; many; large, tall

From Middle English mickle, michel, mikel, mochel, muchel, mukel (“much; many; large, tall; great”), from Old English miċel, myċel (“big, large; great; much”), from Proto-Germanic *mikilaz (“great, large; many, much”), from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“big, great”). The word is cognate with Faroese mikil (“large, great, much”), Icelandic mikill (“large in quantity or number; much; great”), Middle High German michel (“large, much”). Doublet of much and muckle.

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Forms

plural: mickles
Singularmickle
Pluralmickles

regular

Synonyms

26 synonyms
Close in meaning

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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