different between huckle vs muckle

English

Etymology

From huck (from Middle English hoke (“hook”), hokebone, probably so called because of its round shape) + -le. See also hook.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?k?l/
• Rhymes: -?k?l

Noun

huckle (plural huckles)

1. (obsolete) The hip, the haunch.
   • 1676, A Way to Get Wealth, Book I, page 5

     […] which approves a quick gathering up of his legs withoute pain, his huckle bones round and hidden, […]

   • 1687, The History of the Most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha and His Trusty Squire (translated by JP), Book II, page 433:

     At what time Don Quixote, who had very much bruis'd his Huckle-bone, with a Hipshot grace approaching the Lady fell upon his Knees […]
2. A bunch or part projecting like the hip.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Nicholas Udall to this entry?)

3. (Tyneside, derogatory) A homosexual man.
   • 2002, "Bridge Over Troubled Waters", Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

     He’s not! He can’t be! There's never been a huckle in the Osbourne family, and we can trace our lineage all the way back to the Second World War.

English

Etymology

From Middle English mukel, muchel, from the same source as (perhaps a variant of) mickle, which see.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?k?l/
• Rhymes: -?k?l

Noun

muckle

1. (chiefly Scotland) A great amount.

Derived terms

• many a mickle makes a muckle

Adjective

muckle (comparative more muckle, superlative most muckle)

1. (archaic outside Northumbria and Scotland) Large, massive.
   • c. 1930, George S. Morris, song A Pair o Nicky-tams:

     She clorts a muckle piece [sandwich] tae me, wi' different kinds o' jam,
     An' tells me ilka nicht that she admires my Nicky Tams.

2. (archaic outside Northumbria and Scotland) Much.

Verb

muckle (third-person singular simple present muckles, present participle muckling, simple past and past participle muckled)

1. (US, dialectal) To latch onto something with the mouth.
2. (rare) To talk big; to exaggerate.

Synonyms

• (to talk big): mickle

References

• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN
• A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [4]
• muckle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.