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plural muckles
(chiefly Scotland) A great amount. examples
comparative more muckle, superlative most muckle
(archaic outside Northumbria and Scotland) Large, massive. quotations
She clorts a muckle piece [sandwich] tae me, wi' different kinds o' jam,An' tells me ilka nicht that she admires my Nicky Tams.
c. 1930, George S. Morris, song A Pair o Nicky-tams
(archaic outside Northumbria and Scotland) Much.
third-person singular simple present muckles, present participle muckling, simple past and past participle muckled
(Vermont, Maine) To latch onto something with the mouth. quotations examples
And how'd she get such a holt on you, Terence Campion, let alone the way she's muckled onto those Bennetts?
1954, Elizabeth Ogilvie, The Dawning of the Day, page 199
Another technique for the baby who is having trouble muckling on involves a breast or nipple shield.
2002, William G. Wilkoff, The Maternity Leave Breastfeeding Plan, page 87
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.
2004, William J. Vande Kopple, The Catch: Families, Fishing, and Faith, page 18
(rare) To talk big; to exaggerate. quotations
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!
1896, W.S. Gilbert, “The Grand Duke, or the Statutory Duel”, in The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan, published 1941
A maul or hammer. quotations examples
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.
1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous