What does Mickle mean?

Definitions for Mickle
ˈmɪk əlmick·le

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Mickle.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. 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, wadnoun

    (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"

Wiktionary

  1. micklenoun

    A great amount.

  2. mickleadjective

    much, great

  3. Etymology: From mikel, muchel, mochel, mukel, from michel, mycel, (now chiefly Northumbrian and Scottish).

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Mickleadjective

    Much; great. Obsolete. In Scotland it is pronounced muckle.

    Etymology: micel , Saxon.

    This reade is rife that oftentime
    Great cumbers fall unsoft:
    In humble dales is footing fast,
    The trode is not so tickle,
    And though one fall through heedless haste,
    Yet is his miss not mickle. Edmund Spenser, Pastorals.

    Many a little makes a mickle. William Camden, Remains.

    If I to-day die with Frenchmens rage,
    To-morrow I shall die with mickle age. William Shakespeare, Henry VI.

    O, mickle is the pow’rful grace, that lies
    In plants, herbs, stones, and their true qualities. William Shakespeare.

    All this tract that fronts the falling sun,
    A noble peer, of mickle trust and power,
    Has in his charge. John Milton.

ChatGPT

  1. mickle

    "Mickle" is an archaic or Scottish/Northern English term that means "a great amount or quantity." It is often used in the phrase "many a mickle makes a muckle," which means small amounts of something can accumulate to make a large amount.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Mickleadjective

    much; great

  2. Etymology: [OE. mikel, muchel, mochel, mukel, AS. micel, mycel; akin to OS. mikil, OHG. mihil, mihhil, Icel. mikill, mykill, Goth. mikils, L. magnus, Gr. me`gas, gen. mega`loy; cf. Skr. mahat. 103. Cf. Much, Muckle, Magnitude.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Mickle

    mik′l, adj. (arch.) much. [A.S. micel, mycel; Scot. muckle.]

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. MICKLE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Mickle is ranked #7983 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Mickle surname appeared 4,141 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Mickle.

    69% or 2,860 total occurrences were White.
    25.1% or 1,041 total occurrences were Black.
    3% or 125 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.7% or 71 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.5% or 24 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.4% or 20 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Mickle in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Mickle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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