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mickle
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synonyms: muckle ???
tags: [archaic]
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Definition:a great amount; a lot; much
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On al þis yuele time heold Martin abbot his abbotrice ·xx· wintre ⁊ half gær ⁊ viii· dæis. mid micel suinc.
The Peterborough Chronicle (1137 A.D.)
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Two paire of shoes a day will nowe be too litle
To serue me, I must trotte to and fro so mickle.
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the castle was opened and there nighed them a mickle noise as of many that sat there at meat.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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—— shew your sell
Tu all the sheepards, bauldly; gaing amang hem.
Be mickle in their eye, frequent and fugeand.
And, gif they ask ye of Eiarine,
Or of these claithes; say that I ga' hem ye,
And say no more. I ha' that wark in hand,
That web upon the luime, sall gar em thinke.
Ben Jonson. The Sad Shepherd.
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