muckle
/ˈmʌkəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Much.
Archaic
verb
To latch onto something with the mouth.
verb
To talk big; to exaggerate.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "She clorts a muckle piece [sandwich] tae me, wi' different kinds o' jam,"
- "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."
- "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."
- "When an exhausted sucker is hauled to the top of The Wall, usually its muckling circle of a mouth goes into a frenzied sucking spasm."
- "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!"