muckle

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A great amount. Scotland
  2. A maul or hammer.
    — Then 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.
动词 v.
  1. To latch onto something with the mouth. Maine
    — And how'd she get such a holt on you, Terence Campion, let alone the way she's muckled onto those Bennetts?
  2. To talk big; to exaggerate. rare
    — 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!
形容词 adj.
  1. Large, massive. Scotland,archaic,outside-Northumbria
    — She clorts a muckle piece [sandwich] tae me, wi' different kinds o' jam,
  2. Much. Scotland,archaic,outside-Northumbria
    — But long they waited, and longer still, / With doubt and muckle pain, / But woe were the hearts of his brethren, / For he came not back again.

词形变化

muckles plural muckler comparative mucklest superlative muckles present,singular,third-person muckling participle,present muckled participle,past muckled past muckles plural

词源

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