muckle

noun

1. (Scotland)A great amount.
2. A maul or hammer.

   “Then the caplin moved off, and five minutes later there was no sound except the splash of the sinkers overside, the flapping of the cod, and the whack of the muckles as the men stunned them.”

adj

1. (Scotland, archaic, outside-Northumbria)Large, massive.

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

2. (Scotland, archaic, outside-Northumbria)Much.

   “But long they waited, and longer still, / With doubt and muckle pain, / But woe were the hearts of his brethren, / For he came not back again.”

verb

1. (Maine)To latch onto something with the mouth.

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

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

   “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.”

2. (rare)To talk big; to exaggerate.

   “I told him all, / Both bad and good; / I bade him call — / He said he would: / I added much — the more I muckled, / The more that chuckling chummy chuckled!”

name

1. A surname.