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#26226 04/07/01 10:16 PM
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Has anyone heard the term "Muckley" (Muckly/Muckely). The context I heard was "It was all Muckley done" and then explained to me to mean "a random visual mess; no pattern or proportion of shapes colors or design; mangled". I've heard all "mucked up" but I thought they were just being polite, mispronouncing what they would normally say... "f***** up". Of course, I have heard of muck and mire...


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I've heard all "mucked up" but I thought they were just being polite

I heard and used "mucked up" for donkey's years before I ever heard the F-word let alone used it!
Mucked up is commonly used even today and not as a substitute but as a stand alone meaning mangled, confused, jury rigged, half-done, a general mess.
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Dear musick: I seem to remember a Scottish saying: "Many a mickle makes a muckle."

mick[le 7mik4!l8
adj., adv., n.
5ME (Northern) mikel < OE micel, infl. by ON mikell: for IE base see MUCH6 [Now Chiefly Scot.] much


Many a mickle [July 1999; 2-1]
... and cost. The old Scottish proverb tells us that "many a mickle makes a muckle"
- understandable if it is the same as looking after the pennies. The point is ...
http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/Bandolier/ImpAct/imp02/i2-1.html

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For you, sweet musick, I took the time to look this up on
a webite of Scottish language, and got:
mickle small quantity
mind remember
mither mother
monie many
morn morning
muckle big, great, large, much


The site is sponsored, to my amazement, by the Ngaio Press
of Wellington, New Zealand!
http://www.actrix.gen.nz/users/ngaiopress/



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The site is sponsored, to my amazement, by the Ngaio Press
of Wellington, New Zealand!
http://www.actrix.gen.nz/users/ngaiopress/


You're right, intelligence and literacy in Welllington, who woulda thunk it?


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Max - This takes sibling rivalry to a whole new depth!

I heard and used "mucked up" for donkey's years...

How long would those be! ... and where do you start measuring from; where they detach from the skull..?




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morn (=) morning

When I meet someone on the street in the morning, a pleasant exchange of eye contact will be followed by ..."Morn"... (and a tip of a hat if I'm wearing one, or a nod of the head).

This is, as I recall, specifically a Norsk gesture! Ooooooh satin!?!?



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Max - This takes sibling rivalry to a whole new depth!

How did you know that my sister lives in Wellington?! Aksherley, that was a little jibe at Jackies' post which had remninded me of the "wow, you mean there's kulcha in NZ?" atttitude that was common once upon a long ago. That, and the fact that as national capital, Wellington is the wordiest city in NZ.

I heard and used "mucked up" for donkey's
years...

How long would those be!


I'm not sure, but would a thousand of them be a mulennium?


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How did you know that my sister lives in Wellington?!

Yo Bro's are across the "other" pond from my "perspective"...(always somwhere in the middle) If we 'cross thread, language has relegated [duckingfromskeet] the "father" to "sibling" here...

Don't assk me to 'splain any fodder!




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Yo Bro's are across the "other" pond from my "perspective"...(always somwhere in the middle)

Yup, and our pond is bigger than your pond - how an overgrown lake like the Atlantic has the cheek to call itself an ocean, I'll never know. Just get back to me in a couple of aeons when the Atlantic has grown bigger than the shrinking Pacific. Until the coming of that brayve new world, I shall retire to my burro.


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