| 单词 | many a little makes a mickle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmany a little (also pickle) makes a mickle 4. A large sum or amount. Chiefly in proverb: many a little (also pickle) makes a mickle (now frequently in the garbled form many a mickle makes a muckle).The form many a mickle makes a muckle (earliest recorded in quot. 1793) arises from a misapprehension that, rather than being variants of the same word, mickle and muckle have opposite meanings, the former representing ‘a small amount’ and the latter ‘a large amount’. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > (a) great quantity or amount felec825 muchc1230 good wone1297 plentyc1300 bushelc1374 sight1390 mickle-whata1393 forcea1400 manynessa1400 multitudea1400 packc1400 a good dealc1430 greata1450 sackful1484 power1489 horseloadc1500 mile1508 lump1523 a deal?1532 peckc1535 heapa1547 mass1566 mass1569 gallon1575 armful1579 cart-load1587 mickle1599 bushelful1600–12 a load1609 wreck1612 parisha1616 herd1618 fair share1650 heapa1661 muchness1674 reams1681 hantle1693 mort1694 doll?1719 lift1755 acre1759 beaucoup1760 ton1770 boxload1795 boatload1807 lot1811 dollop1819 swag1819 faggald1824 screed1826 Niagara1828 wad1828 lashings1829 butt1831 slew1839 ocean1840 any amount (of)1848 rake1851 slather1857 horde1860 torrent1864 sheaf1865 oodlesa1867 dead load1869 scad1869 stack1870 jorum1872 a heap sight1874 firlot1883 oodlings1886 chunka1889 whips1888 God's quantity1895 streetful1901 bag1917 fid1920 fleetful1923 mob1927 bucketload1930 pisspot1944 shitload1954 megaton1957 mob-o-ton1975 gazillion1978 buttload1988 shit ton1991 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > a great quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > proverb many a little (also pickle) makes a mickle1599 1599 T. M. Micro-cynicon iii. sig. B8 Some little durty spot..Nothing in manies view, in hers a mickle. 1614 W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 310 Many a little makes a micle. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 509. ¶6 But, I think, a Speculation upon Many a Little makes a Mickle..would be very useful to the World. 1793 G. Washington Writings (1939) XXXII. 423 A Scotch addage, than which nothing in nature is more true ‘that many mickles make a muckle’. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 20 Still retained in the common adage, ‘Many littles make a mickle.’ 1905 Westm. Gaz. 29 Apr. 3/1 There's the Tithe Relief... In the case of London, the deduction amounts to £19,000... Mony a pickle maks a muckle. 1940 Huntly Express 19 Jan. 3 He said..‘As the Scots say..mony a mickle mak's a muckle.’.. I took the liberty of telling him..that the proverb is ‘Mony a little mak's a muckle.’ 1982 S. Scott Local Lads x. 106 Though you can perform a minor task easily yourself, command that a minion do it. It emphasizes your eminence, many a mickle making a muckle. < as lemmas |
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