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mickle

UK /ˈmɪk(ə)l/US /ˈmɪkəl/

noun 4
adverb 2
determiner 2
adjective 1
pronoun 1
forms 3

noun4

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(Scotland, no longer used) A great amount.
- Many a little makes a mickle.
(no longer used) Great or important people as a class.
(no longer used) Greatness, largeness, stature.
(Scotland, no longer used) A small amount.

adverb2

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(Scotland, no longer used) To a great extent.
- […] I am without fenzeitnes of hart and spreit; and of gude ressoun, thocht [though] my meritis were mickle greiter than of the maist profit that ever was, […] — 1790
(no longer used) Frequently, often.

determiner2

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(Scotland, no longer used) Much; a great quantity or amount of.
- There was mickle melody at that Childës [Jesus Christ's] birth, / All that were in heaven's bliss, they made mickle mirth. — 1910
(Scotland, no longer used) Most; the majority of.

adjective1

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(Scotland, no longer used) (Very) great or large.
- O Jupiter! whose strength is mickle, / Was ever man in such a pickle! — 1772

pronoun1

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(Scotland, no longer used) A great extent or large amount.
- Seek mickle, and get something; seek little, and get nothing. — 1721

forms

mickles · more mickle · most mickle

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