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English
Adjective
meikle (comparative more meikle, superlative most meikle)
- Alternative form of mickle.
1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon [pseudonym; James Leslie Mitchell], “Prelude: The Unfurrowed Field”, in Sunset Song: A Novel, London: Jarrolds, Limited, →OCLC; republished Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2008, →ISBN, page 1:In the Den of Kinraddie one such beast had its lair […] and at gloaming a shepherd would see it, with its great wings half-folded across the great belly of it and its head, like the head of a meikle cock, but with the ears of a lion, poked over a fir tree, watching.
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Adjective
meikle
- Alternative form of mickle