trauchle

Sin 'Sandy put that sofa into the washin'-hoose, him an' twa-three mair's never lain oot o't. Lyin 'smokin' an 'spittin' an 'crackin' aboot life bein 'a trauchle, an' so on!

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

There's no 'muckle hertnin' for a woman when she's left to trauchle day oot day in wi 'seven litlans, an' a thrawn-gabbit footer o 'a man juist comin' in at diet times, rennyin 'aboot first ae thing an' syne anither, threapin 'that his porritch is no' half boiled, simmerin 'an' winterin 'aboot haen to wait a meenit or twa for his denner or his tea.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

"Maist fowk thinks it'll be a braw place, whaur there'll be nae trauchle or trouble wi 'onything; but I doot we maun juist tak' the Bible for't, lads, an 'hae faith that it'll be a' richt, whatever wey it comes aboot."

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

I'm shure I needna trauchle to haud in aboot the bawbees!

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

I would have thocht the thowless trauchle [3] hadna the smeddum left to interfere. "

The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885