Muckle

Quick meaning: Muckle is a noun meaning (Vermont, Maine) To latch onto something with the mouth.

Meaning

(Vermont, Maine) To latch onto something with the mouth.

More Meanings

1. A maul or hammer.
2. (chiefly Scotland) A great amount.
3. (archaic outside Northumbria and Scotland) Large, massive.
4. (archaic outside Northumbria and Scotland) Much.
5. (rare) To talk big; to exaggerate.

Example Sentences

She clorts a muckle piece [sandwich] tae me, wi' different kinds o' jam,

Another technique for the baby who is having trouble muckling on involves a breast or nipple shield.

And how'd she get such a holt on you, Terence Campion, let alone the way she's muckled onto those Bennetts?

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.

Word Forms

• muckles
• muckler
• mucklest
• muckling
• muckled

Synonyms for muckle

Depending on context, synonyms include mickle, slew, spate, mass, pile, deal.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mickle, plenty, lot, heap, sight, pile.

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