Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To maltreat; baffle.
- noun An old shoe worn down at the heel, or one with the counter turned down and worn as a slipper.
- noun A slovenly, pithless, or shiftless person; a shambling good-for-nothing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Scotland To
misuse , tobungle . - verb Scotland To
insult , toupbraid , to make afool of someone. - noun Scotland An old shoe.
- noun Scotland A
fool .
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Examples
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But it sticks in my mind that ye'll have made some kind of bauchle; and if I was you I would have a try at her again. "
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But it sticks in my mind that ye'll have made some kind of bauchle; and if I was you, I would have a try at her again. "
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But it sticks in my mind that ye'll have made some kind of bauchle; and if I was you I would have a try at her again. "
Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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You expects me to come and save you money and the like of that old bauchle eating up the profits.
The Drone A Play in Three Acts Rutherford Mayne
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Moore, Protestant and Catholic, who together lay in wait for the hated landlord and shot him as he passed through the glen; or John Murray, good man, and his bauchle of a brother?
Irish Plays and Playwrights Cornelius Weygandt 1914
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And ye need nae tell me: it's better than war; which is the next best, however, though generally rather a bauchle of a business.
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And ye need nae tell me: it's better than war; which is the next best, however, though generally rather a bauchle of a business.
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And ye need nae tell me: it's better than war; which is the next best, however, though generally rather a bauchle of a business.
Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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The clouds have no notion of being caricatured, and the trees keep cautiously away from the brink of such streams -- save, perchance, now and then, here and there, a weak well-meaning willow -- a thing of shreds and patches -- its leafless wands covered with bits of old worsted stockings, crowns of hats, a bauchle
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819
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Admittedly the competition isn't great: that wee bauchle Lulu; the Bay City Rollers, who always looked short on account of their shrunken tartan breeks; the aptly named Midge Ure; Wet Wet Wet, who were fond of kikicking in the gutters; and Simple Minds featuring the always crouching Jim Kerr.
unknown title 2009
Gammerstang commented on the word bauchle
(verb) - To treat contemptuously; to villify. To bauchle a lass, to jilt a young woman. --John Jamieson's Etymological Scottish Dictionary, 1808
April 22, 2018