muckling

Verb

muckle (third-person singular simple present muckles, present participle muckling, simple past and past participle muckled)

1. (Maine, Vermont) To latch onto something with the mouth.
   • And how'd she get such a holt on you, Terence Campion, let alone the way she's muckled onto those Bennetts?1954, Elizabeth Ogilvie, The Dawning of the Day, page 199
2. (rare) To talk big; to exaggerate.
   • I told him all, / Both bad and good; / I bade him call — / He said he would: / I added much — the more I muckled, / The more that chuckling chummy chuckled!1896, W.S. Gilbert, “The Grand Duke, or the Statutory Duel”, in The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan, published 1941

   Synonyms:

   mickle

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