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Definition of mickle in English: mickle(also muckle) noun ˈmɪk(ə)lˈmɪkəl Northern English, Scottish archaic A large amount. 〈古或苏格兰，北英格兰〉大量，许多 Example sentencesExamples - It didn't fare so well with the question ‘How many mickle in a muckle?’
adjective ˈmɪk(ə)lˈmɪkəl Northern English, Scottish archaic Very large. 巨大的 she had a great big elephant … that's one of those mickle beasts from Africa 她有一头巨象…那是非洲巨型动物之一。 Example sentencesExamples - Flanked on either side by a lass with a muckle great sword, and blowing for all he's worth, Kenny leads the procession into the main exhibition and conference hall, through a glitter of camera flashes.
- Do you know there's this old church in Aberdeen that's now a great muckle warren o' a pub that can hold 1,500 folk?
- The footballer has vowed to walk out on the club that he loves if they carry on meeting his heartfelt pleas for talks on his future with a muckle wall of silence.
- ‘When they cast the colours at the end of the Selkirk common riding a great, muckle lump comes into my throat, even though I ken it's a load o' rubbish.’
- Do you open that muckle gate, or do I stand here until the rain rots it away?
determiner & pronoun ˈmɪk(ə)lˈmɪkəl Northern English, Scottish archaic Much; a large amount. 〈古或苏格兰，北英格兰〉大量，许多
UsageThe original proverb many a little makes a mickle was misquoted (and first recorded in the writing of George Washington, 1793) as many a mickle makes a muckle. While mickle and muckle are, by origin, merely variants of the same (now dialect) word meaning ‘a large amount’, the misquotation spawned a misunderstanding that has now become widespread: that mickle means ‘a small amount’, and muckle means the opposite, ‘a large amount’ Phrasesmany a little makes a mickle archaic, proverb Many small amounts accumulate to make a large amount. 〈谚〉积少成多；集腋成裘 Example sentencesExamples - Although they also say ‘many a mickle makes a muckle’, and I've never understood what the heck that means.
- Thorough instruction in all military details is best, and there is an old saying that ‘many a mickle makes a muckle.’
- Unfortunately, one of George Washington's favorite Scottish maxims, ‘Many a mickle makes a muckle’ did not survive the eighteenth century.
- After you award it to your kids, they will collect little by little even one penny and put it in this cute Jar, after a while, many a little makes a mickle, they will be very surprised to ask you: ‘Mom, my piggy jar is going to full, may I take them out and fill him again?’
- Remember, many a little makes a mickle; and farther, beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
OriginOld English micel 'great, numerous, much', of Germanic origin; from an Indo-European root shared by Greek megas, megal-. Rhymeschicle, fickle, nickel, pickle, prickle, sickle, strickle, tickle, trickle Definition of mickle in US English: mickle(also muckle) nounˈmɪkəlˈmikəl Scottish, Northern English archaic A large amount. 〈古或苏格兰，北英格兰〉大量，许多 Example sentencesExamples - It didn't fare so well with the question ‘How many mickle in a muckle?’
adjectiveˈmɪkəlˈmikəl Scottish, Northern English archaic Very large. 巨大的 she had a great big elephant … that's one of those mickle beasts from Africa 她有一头巨象…那是非洲巨型动物之一。 Example sentencesExamples - The footballer has vowed to walk out on the club that he loves if they carry on meeting his heartfelt pleas for talks on his future with a muckle wall of silence.
- Do you open that muckle gate, or do I stand here until the rain rots it away?
- Do you know there's this old church in Aberdeen that's now a great muckle warren o' a pub that can hold 1,500 folk?
- ‘When they cast the colours at the end of the Selkirk common riding a great, muckle lump comes into my throat, even though I ken it's a load o' rubbish.’
- Flanked on either side by a lass with a muckle great sword, and blowing for all he's worth, Kenny leads the procession into the main exhibition and conference hall, through a glitter of camera flashes.
determiner & pronounˈmɪkəlˈmikəl Scottish, Northern English archaic Much; a large amount. 〈古或苏格兰，北英格兰〉大量，许多
Phrasesmany a little makes a mickle proverb Many small amounts accumulate to make a large amount. 〈谚〉积少成多；集腋成裘 Example sentencesExamples - Remember, many a little makes a mickle; and farther, beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
- Although they also say ‘many a mickle makes a muckle’, and I've never understood what the heck that means.
- After you award it to your kids, they will collect little by little even one penny and put it in this cute Jar, after a while, many a little makes a mickle, they will be very surprised to ask you: ‘Mom, my piggy jar is going to full, may I take them out and fill him again?’
- Thorough instruction in all military details is best, and there is an old saying that ‘many a mickle makes a muckle.’
- Unfortunately, one of George Washington's favorite Scottish maxims, ‘Many a mickle makes a muckle’ did not survive the eighteenth century.
OriginOld English micel ‘great, numerous, much’, of Germanic origin; from an Indo-European root shared by Greek megas, megal-. |