The words "pickle" and "puckle" have the same meaning as "mickle" and "muckle" - true or false?

A mickle and a muckle both mean the same thing: they refer to something large, or large amounts of something. These Scottish words were thought to be opposites of each other largely because of an adage that itself was wrong from the outset. “Mony a mickle maks a muckle” was widely understood to mean something along the lines of “many little things add up to a lot”. The correct original expression was, “Mony a pickle maks a muckle”, but it is feasible that pickle was substituted for the sake of a more alliterative phrase. Pickle/puckle, of course, means the opposite of mickle/muckle, i.e. a little of something.

George Washington referred to the phrase in 1793 in his 'Writings', further obscuring mickle’s true meaning. He wrote to a rather profligate manager of his at Mount Vernon, "There is an old Scotch adage, than which none in the whole catalogue of them is more true, or more worthy of being held in remembrance - 'that many mickles make a muckle' indicating that however trifling a thing may be in itself, when it stands alone, yet, when they come to be multiplyed they mount high which serves to prove, that nothing, however trifling, ought to be wasted that can be saved—nor bought if you can do well without it." The phrase's variant form 'many a mickle makes a muckle' is also sometimes heard. Both phrases are actually nonsensical as they derive from the misapprehension that mickle and muckle, rather than meaning the same thing, mean 'small' and 'large' respectively.