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#1·Apr 27, 2026
(obsolete) Frequently, often.
I livd in a house by the Tower, which has not been repaird since Robert Consull of Gloucester repayrd the castle and wall; here I livd warm, but in my house on the hyll the ayre was mickle keen,
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#2·Apr 27, 2026
(archaic, now, chiefly, Scotland) To a great extent.
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#3·Apr 27, 2026
(archaic, now, chiefly, Scotland, and, Northern England, especially, Northumbria) (Very) great or large.
O ! whose ſtrength is mickle, / Was ever man in ſuch a pickle!
Origin: From , michel, mikel, mochel, muchel, mukel, from , myċel, from , from . The word is cognate with , , . . For the adverb and noun forms, compare and . The noun sense “a small amount” was due to the proverb many a little makes a mickle being incorrectly rendered as many a mickle makes a muckle, leading to mickle being thought to mean “a small quantity” and muckle to mean “a large quantity”, even though muckle is a variant of mickle and both mean “a large quantity”. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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