mickle

mickle
(亦作 muckle)
(archaic or Scottish & N. English)(古或苏格兰，北英格兰)
noun

adjective

very large
巨大的
she had a great big elephant … that's one of those mickle beasts from Africa.
她有一头巨象…那是非洲巨型动物之一。

determiner& pronoun

常用词组
many a little makes a mickle

(亦作 many a mickle makes a muckle)(proverb)many small amounts accumulate to make a large amount
(谚)积少成多；集腋成裘

语源

Old English micel 'great, numerous, much', of Germanic origin; from an Indo-European root shared by Greek megas, megal-

用法

The original proverb many a little makes a mickle was misquoted (and first recorded in the writing of George Washington, 1793) as many a mickle makes a muckle. While mickle and muckle are, by origin, merely variants of the same (now dialect) word meaning ‘a large amount’, the misquotation spawned a misunderstanding that has now become widespread: that mickle means ‘a small amount’, and muckle means the opposite, ‘a large amount’

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