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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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muckle
adjective
large in bulk or size, great:
A muckle, great dug
[dog]
.
la14-
.
etymology:
Scots; Old Norse
mikill
‘great, large’; attested by
SR
and
ET
note:
Cited by Canadian Paul Pope (2013) and defined as ‘great, big, large’.