“Nae worries pal. Whether muckle or wee me an Prince Fearless here will tak care o a’ the raptors.”

Translate:

muckle: big.

“No problem dear new acquaintance. Whether large or small, myself and Prince Fearless here will take care of all the raptors.”

fearless.

It’s true that humans and Dinosaurs did not exist in the same time period.

But it’s too good a combination to not put together.

I have a friend who when stressed about ecological disasters thinks of things in geological time.

He did train as a geologist.

I saw the concept described quite well on TV tonight.

Imagine geological time as a distance.

Such as from your shoulder to your fingertip.

Then you could remove all human existence from it with a single scrape of a nail file.

Yes. In the longer term the earth would heal completely and continue quite nicely without us.

Probably for several arm lengths more as well.

The Scottish Word: muckle with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in context in the Scots language and in English.