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# muckle

«muckle» in Mova's school dictionary: **much or great in amount or size** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

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

2) (old use) Muckle as an adverb means very or greatly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muckle/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muckle/#x1)
- There was muckle joy in the village that day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muckle/#x2)
- He had muckle wealth. [tree →](https://md.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.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «muckle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muckle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.