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Muchness  n.  Greatness; extent. (Obs. or Colloq.) "The quantity and muchness of time which it filcheth."
Much of a muchness, much the same. (Colloq.) "Men's men; gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Muchness" Quotes from Famous Books



... seen Tom Peters carrying on with Polly in the passage, she might have felt justified in her prejudice against him. It must be confessed, though, that Everard also carried on with Polly. Alas! it is to be feared that men are much of a muchness where women are concerned; shabby men and smart men, bank managers and journalists, bachelors and semi-detached bachelors. Perhaps it was a mistake after all to say the chums had nothing patently ...
— The Idler, Volume III., Issue XIII., February 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly. Edited By Jerome K. Jerome & Robert Barr • Various

... Adams revolver, and concluded at last that some others of the household were busied in secret dissipation or nocturnal lovemaking. "No one man has a controlling patent on being a fool," mused Simpson. "Black and white, we're all of a muchness." And as he knew they might now leave at any moment he sped away to his ...
— A Fascinating Traitor • Richard Henry Savage



Words linked to "Muchness" :   archaicism, archaism, much



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