Meaning of mickle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A great amount.
   Scotland, archaic, countable, uncountable
3. A small amount.
   Scotland, archaic, countable, uncountable
4. Great or important people as a class.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
5. Greatness, largeness, stature.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“Many a little makes a mickle.”

“Neurthelesse little or mickle, something or nothing, substaunce or shadow take all in good part, my meaning is by a fewe wordes to wynne credit to this works, not so much for mine owne Englishe Translation as for the singular commendation of them, challenged of dutie and desart.”

“In a word, I muſt know what I may gaine, little or much: for the henne layes aſwell vpon one egge as many, and many littles make a mickle, and whilſt ſomething is gotten, nothing is loſt.”

“Many of the great fortunes in this country have been built up of pence and halfpence—I might also say of farthings. The odd halfpenny and three-farthings that you see (if you look close) upon the ticketed article in the shop-window, forms one of the littles; and a profit of hundreds of pounds, or often thousands, at the end of the year, forms the mickle.”

“While we boast of our farming, we must repeat again and again, the secret of our prosperity. It is a regular rotation of crops, making a little out of many articles, rather than attempting to make much of one; remembering the Scotch proverb, that "many a mickle makes a muckle"; […]”

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