Meaning

1 senses

  1. (Scotland, archaic)A great extent or large amount.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. Many a little makes a mickle.

    ruС миру по нитке - голому рубаха. — Imp

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  2. Many a mickle makes a muckle.

    ruПо капле и море собирается. — sharptoothed

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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

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
mickeymicroB2microbeB2microbiologist

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