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FromMiddle Englishmukel,muchel, from the same source as (perhaps a variant of)mickle.

muckle (pluralmuckles)

muckle (comparativemoremuckle,superlativemostmuckle)

(archaic outside Northumbria and Scotland)Large,massive.
- c. 1930,George S. Morris, songA Pair o Nicky-tams:
  She clorts amuckle piece [sandwich] tae me, wi' different kinds o' jam,
  An' tells me ilka nicht that she admires my Nicky Tams.
(archaic outside Northumbria and Scotland)Much.

muckle (third-person singular simple presentmuckles,present participlemuckling,simple past and past participlemuckled)

(Vermont, Maine) Tolatch onto something with the mouth.
- 1954, Elizabeth Ogilvie,The Dawning of the Day‎^[1], page199:
  And how'd she get such a holt on you, Terence Campion, let alone the way she'smuckled onto those Bennetts?
- 2002, William G. Wilkoff,The Maternity Leave Breastfeeding Plan‎^[2],→ISBN, page87:
  Another technique for the baby who is having troublemuckling on involves a breast or nipple shield.
- 2004, William J. Vande Kopple,The Catch: Families, Fishing, and Faith‎^[3],→ISBN, page18:
  When an exhausted sucker is hauled to the top of The Wall, usually itsmuckling circle of a mouth goes into a frenzied sucking spasm.
(rare) Totalk big; toexaggerate.
- 1896,W.S. Gilbert, “The Grand Duke, or the Statutory Duel”, inThe Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan, published1941:
  I told him all, / Both bad and good; / I bade him call — / He said he would: / I added much — the more Imuckled, / The more that chuckling chummy chuckled!

Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “muckle”, inA Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear:Northumbria University Press,→ISBN.
“Muckle”, inPalgrave’s Word List: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎^[4], archived fromthe original on5 September 2024, from F[rancis] M[ilnes] T[emple] Palgrave,A List of Words and Phrases in Everyday Use by the Natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham […] (Publications of the English Dialect Society; 74), London: Published for theEnglish Dialect Society by Henry Frowde,Oxford University Press, 1896,→OCLC.
“muckle”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.

muckle (pluralmuckles)

Amaul orhammer.
- 1897, Rudyard Kipling,Captains Courageous:
  Then the caplin moved off, and five minutes later there was no sound except the splash of the sinkers overside, the flapping of the cod, and the whack of themuckles as the men stunned them.