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muckle
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
- (chiefly Scotland) A great amount.
Derived terms
- many a mickle makes a muckle
Adjective
muckle (comparative more muckle, superlative most muckle)
- (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.
- She clorts a muckle piece [sandwich] tae me, wi' different kinds o' jam,
- c. 1930, George S. Morris, song A Pair o Nicky-tams:
- (archaic outside Northumbria and Scotland) Much.
Verb
muckle (third-person singular simple present muckles, present participle muckling, simple past and past participle muckled)
- (US, dialectal) To latch onto something with the mouth.
- (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.
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suckle
English
Etymology
From Middle English sukelen; probably a back-formation of Middle English sukeling (“a suckling; infant”), formally equivalent to suck +? -le (frequentative suffix). See suckling.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?.k?l/
- Rhymes: -?k?l
Noun
suckle (plural suckles)
- (obsolete) A teat.
- 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique, London: Jacob Blome and Richard Bishop, “Travels begun Anno 1626,” Book 1, p. 26,[1]
- […] the body of this fish [the Mannatee] is commonly 3 yards long and one broad, slow in swimming, wanting fins, in their place ayded with 2 paps which are not only suckles but stilts to creep a shoare upon such time she grazes […]
- 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique, London: Jacob Blome and Richard Bishop, “Travels begun Anno 1626,” Book 1, p. 26,[1]
Verb
suckle (third-person singular simple present suckles, present participle suckling, simple past and past participle suckled)
- (transitive) To give suck to; to nurse at the breast, udder, or dugs.
- c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act I, Scene 3,[2]
- […] the breasts of Hecuba
- When she did suckle Hector, looked not lovelier
- Than Hector’s forehead when it spit forth blood
- At Grecian sword, contemning.
- 1826, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations, London: Henry Colburn, 2nd edition, Volume I, “The Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney,” p. 35,[3]
- Let us indulge them; they are not weak, suckled by Wisdom, taught to walk by Virtue.
- c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act I, Scene 3,[2]
- (intransitive) To nurse; to suck milk from a nursing mother.
- 1931, Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth, New York: Modern Library, 1944, Chapter 4, p. 35,[4]
- But out of the woman’s great brown breast the milk gushed forth for the child, milk as white as snow, and when the child suckled at one breast it flowed like a fountain from the other, and she let it flow.
- 1931, Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth, New York: Modern Library, 1944, Chapter 4, p. 35,[4]
- (transitive) To nurse from (a breast, nursing mother, etc.).
- 1982, Bernard Malamud, God’s Grace, New York: Avon, 1983, p. 60[5]
- Buz attempted to suckle his left nipple.
- 1997, Ridley Pearson, Beyond Recognition, New York: Hyperion, p. 129,[6]
- She opened her eyes slightly, like a person drugged—dreamy and quiet. The baby suckled her.
- 1982, Bernard Malamud, God’s Grace, New York: Avon, 1983, p. 60[5]
Derived terms
- suckling
Translations
Anagrams
- Leucks, Luckes, Luecks
Hunsrik
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sukl?/
Verb
suckle
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- Online Hunsrik Dictionary
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