Link Centre Dictionary

mackle

uncommon obsolete uk

noun

1.

Origin

Back-formation from Macklemore interpreted as mackle + more, originally from a joke "I wish he would mackle less". The origin of Macklemore is unclear - it may be a corruption of McLemore or a childhood coinage by Macklemore.

Related words

Broader terms

WordNet 2.1 (Princeton University). Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). WordNet 2.1 Copyright Princeton University. All rights reserved. Wiktionary content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence.