mickle : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: mickle	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for mickle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mickle n (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" Synonym(s): batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mickle \Mic"kle\, a. [OE. mikel, muchel, mochel, mukel, AS. micel, mycel; akin to OS. mikil, OHG. mihil, mihhil, Icel. mikill, mykill, Goth. mikils, L. magnus, Gr. [?], gen. [?]; cf. Skr. mahat. [root]103. Cf. {Much}, {Muckle}, {Magnitude}.] Much; great. [Written also {muckle} and {mockle}.] [Old Eng. & Scot.] [bd]A man of mickle might.[b8] --Spenser.