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 →

2) (old use) Muckle as an adverb means very or greatly. tree →

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 →
• There was muckle joy in the village that day. tree →
• He had muckle wealth. tree →

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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.