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# muckle

adjective (old Scots use); adverb (old use, meaning very)

«muckle» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (old use, Scots) Muckle means much or great in amount or size. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muckle/#m1)
2. (old use) Muckle as an adverb means very or greatly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muckle/#m2)

### In the lessons

in old Scottish and northern tales and songs; «muckle pain» means great pain and «muckle doubt» means great doubt

### Examples

- With muckle doubt and pain, they waited. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muckle/#x1)
- There was muckle joy in the village that day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muckle/#x2)
- He had muckle wealth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muckle/#x3)

### Note

nothing exact for maths; it means a large amount with no set number, so it gives no count to work with.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «muckle» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muckle/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«muckle» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/muckle.html) on Mova free.