Bauchle
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Bauchle is a verb meaning (Scotland) To misuse, to bungle.
Meaning
(Scotland) To misuse, to bungle.
More Meanings
- (Scotland) To insult, to upbraid, to make a fool of someone.
- (Scotland, chiefly in the plural) An old shoe.
- (Scotland) A fool.
- (Scotland) A bungled or muddled situation; a mess.
Example Sentences
Maybe that shot that ye think ye bauchled was the most providential shot ye ever fired.
He adds, probably his letter would be propaled and made a bauchle of, and assures them he was never loved at Court as a minister.
1842, Laird of Logan, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, issue 481, page 104. We a' ken that there's tongues in heads, but I ne'er heard o' ony in hats or bauchles afore.
Our enemies were disputing not far off upon the deck, and that so loudly that I could hear a word or two above the washing of the seas. “It was Shuan bauchled it,” I heard one say.
Word Forms
- bauchles
- bauchling
- bauchled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include blunk, muff, mess up, bungle, botch, mommick.
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