mickle
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mick·le
(mĭk'əl) 
Scots.
adj.
Great.
adv.
Greatly.
Scots.adj.
Great.
adv.
Greatly.
[Middle English mikel, from Old English micel and from Old Norse mikill.]
Fowler's Modern English Usage:
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mickle, muckle
These are merely variants of the same word meaning 'a large amount', and so the proverb Many a mickle makes a muckle is, in its usual form, a meaningless corruption. The correct form is Many a little (or occasionally pickle = 'small amount') makes a mickle, which is recorded from the 13th century. The corrupted form is first attested in the works of George Washington (late 18th century).
| mezzanine, mews, metrosexual | |
| micro-, mid, middling, middlingly |
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Mickle
Mickle is a surname. People with the surname Mickle include:
- Andrew H. Mickle, the Mayor of New York from 1846 to 1847
- Charles Mickle, (1849-1910), a Canadian politician
- Charles Mickle (golfer)
- Stephan P. Mickle (born 1944), an American lawyer and judge
- William Julius Mickle (1735-1788), a Scottish poet
Matthew W. Mickle RDH USAF Airman of the year 1988
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