VERB + MUCKLE
makes
MUCKLE + NOUN
piece, sandwich, tae
noun
A great amount.
adj
Large, massive.
She clorts a muckle piece [sandwich] tae me, wi' different kinds o' jam,
Much.
verb
To latch onto something with the mouth.
And how'd she get such a holt on you, Terence Campion, let alone the way she's muckled onto those Bennetts?
Another technique for the baby who is having trouble muckling on involves a breast or nipple shield.
To talk big; to exaggerate.
I told him all, / Both bad and good; / I bade him call — / He said he would: / I added much — the more I muckled, / The more that chuckling chummy chuckled!
A lot of small amounts, put together, become a large amount.
People are often ruined before they are aware of the danger, by buying everything they think they want, without adverting to a Scotch adage—than which nothing in nature is more tru
She clorts a muckle piece [sandwich] tae me, wi' different kinds o' jam,
WiktionaryAnd how'd she get such a holt on you, Terence Campion, let alone the way she's muckled onto those Bennetts?
WiktionaryAnother technique for the baby who is having trouble muckling on involves a breast or nipple shield.
WiktionaryWhen an exhausted sucker is hauled to the top of The Wall, usually its muckling circle of a mouth goes into a frenzied sucking spasm.
WiktionaryThen the caplin moved off, and five minutes later there was no sound except the splash of the sinkers overside, the flapping of the cod, and the whack of the muckles as the men stunned them.
WiktionaryMany a mickle makes a muckle.
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