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mickles

mickles is the plural of mickle.

Meaning of mickle

Noun

mickle (countable and uncountable, plural mickles)

  1. (Scotland, archaic) A great amount.
    • Many a little makes a mickle.
  2. (Scotland, archaic) A small amount.
    • 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"; […]1831 December 3, “Improvements”, in Samuel Hazard, editor, Hazard’s Register of Pennsylvania: Devoted to the Preservation of Facts and Documents, and Every Kind of Useful Information Respecting the...
  3. (obsolete) Great or important people as a class.
  4. (obsolete) Greatness, largeness, stature.

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Proper noun capitalized: Mickles

Mickles

  1. (plural) plural of Mickle

Questions about mickles

What is mickles the plural of?
Mickles is the plural of mickle.
What part of speech is mickles?
Mickles is a proper noun.

Words near mickles in the dictionary

  1. Micklem
  2. mickleness
  3. Mickleover
  4. Mickler
  5. Micklers
  6. mickles
  7. Mickleson syndrome
  8. Micklethwait
  9. Micklethwaite
  10. Micklethwaites
  11. Micklethwaits

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