2. Verb. (Scottish) To insult, to upbraid, to make a fool of someone. ¹
3. Noun. (Scottish chiefly plural) An old shoe. ¹
4. Noun. (Scottish) A fool. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bauchle
1. to shamble [v BAUCHLED, BAUCHLING, BAUCHLES] - See also: shamble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bauchle
Literary usage of Bauchle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1872)
"Beauty without goodness is good for nothing. To bauchle, bachle ... is then, to
distort, to misuse ; to bauchle shoon, to tread them awry ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"I need scarcely add, that this mode of treatment has still been accounted disgraceful.
Hence he, who was subjected to it, might be said to be made a bauchle ..."
3. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology by Ill.) University of Illinois (Urbana (1922)
"Scotch bauchle mentioned by Skeat and the NED. as furnishing some of the earliest
meanings 'disgrace, vilify, etc.,' is probably the source of most of the ..."
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