“I was really struck at first by how funny Michael was in his comic timing,” mickle adds.
He does not regard the Scotchman's "mickle," because he does not stop to consider that the end is a "muckle."
Mitchell may have been reinforced by mickle, the northern for Bigg.
Her pain was passing great; a mickle wonder it was that she ever lived.
And it were well if they might gather a little host ere their foeman might gather a mickle.
He said, If he has not preached, mickle has he prayed in his time.
Then was a mickle sorrow / and cause of weeping ta'en from her.
He called with might and main, that all the water rang, for mickle and great was the hero's strength.
In sooth nor knight nor lady / upon the bed had mickle rest.
"'Mony a little makes a mickle,' as my old grandfather used to say," McCloskey went on.
dialectal survival of Old English micel, mycel "great, intense, big, long, much, many," from Proto-Germanic *mekilaz (cf. Old Saxon mikil, Old Norse mikill, Old High German mihhil, Gothic mikils), from PIE root *meg- "great, large" (cf. Armenian mets "great;" Sanskrit mahat- "great, mazah- "greatness;" Avestan mazant- "great;" Hittite mekkish "great, large;" Greek megas "great, large;" Latin magnus "great, large, much, abundant," major "greater," maximus "greatest;" Middle Irish mag, maignech "great, large;" M.Welsh meith "long, great"). Its main modern form is much (q.v.). Related: Mickleness.