different between ruckle vs muckle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k?l/
• Rhymes: -?k?l

Etymology 1

Variant of ruck.

Verb

ruckle (third-person singular simple present ruckles, present participle ruckling, simple past and past participle ruckled)

1. To crease or wrinkle.

Noun

ruckle (plural ruckles)

1. A disordered collection.
2. A wrinkle.

Etymology 2

Probably cognate with Dutch rogchelen (“to hawk”).

Noun

ruckle (plural ruckles)

1. (Scotland) A rattling noise in the throat, as from suffocation.

Verb

ruckle (third-person singular simple present ruckles, present participle ruckling, simple past and past participle ruckled)

1. (Scotland, intransitive) To make a rattling noise in the throat.

Anagrams

• lucker

German

Pronunciation

Verb

ruckle

1. inflection of ruckeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

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.