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mickle Dec 26th 2012, 08:41 ‎Adjective: ← Older revision Revision as of 08:41, 26 December 2012 (One intermediate revision by one user not shown) Line 1: Line 1:   {{also|muckle}}   {{also|muckle}}   ==English==   ==English==   + ===Alternative forms===   + *[[meikle]]   + *[[muchell]] {{i|obsolete}}       ===Etymology===   ===Etymology=== Line 12: Line 15:   {{en-adj}}   {{en-adj}}     − # {{context|now|_|chiefly|Scotland|and|Northumbria}} [[much]], [[great]] + # {{context|now|_|chiefly|Scotland|and|Northumbria}} [[large|Large]], [[great]].   + #*'''1932''', {{w|Lewis Grassic Gibbon}}, ''Sunset Song'':   + #*:at gloaming a shepherd would see it, with its great wings half-folded across the great belly of it and its head, like the head of a '''meikle''' cock, but with the ears of a lion, poked over a for tree, watching.   + # {{context|now|_|chiefly|Scotland|and|Northumbria}} A great [[quantity]] or [[amount]] of.   #* '''1590''', {{w|Edmund Spenser}}, ''The Faerie Queene'', III.7:   #* '''1590''', {{w|Edmund Spenser}}, ''The Faerie Queene'', III.7:   #*: Full many wounds in his corrupted flesh / He did engrave, and '''muchell''' blood did spend […].   #*: Full many wounds in his corrupted flesh / He did engrave, and '''muchell''' blood did spend […].

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